Thank you all for your responses and insight. For now, my licensing issue is cleared up, and I will continue to use FB 4.7 with Flex 4.12. If Flash Builder doesn't make any more progress, IntelliJ IDEA will more than likely be my next IDE.
Jeffrey Houser - Even the Adobe rep's don't seem to know about that complimentary upgrade. It is an odd situation though. Scott Matheson - I fully agree, and might do the same; running IDEA cold turkey on something new. Using Flex 4.12 with FB 4.6 was not difficult though. Alexander Doroshko - I hope you read borekb's response. borekb - your issues with IDEA were enlightening, yet both encouraging and discouraging. -Adam On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Arne Brödel <arne.broe...@googlemail.com>wrote: > I have a full license for Flash Builder 4.7 and even though I worked with > it a lot and didnt have any major problems I took the time to have a deeper > look into IntelliJ. > The IDE was a little confusing to me first but after the 30 days trial I > was convinced enough to buy it. You might miss some wizards that were > included in FB4.7 but in the end all those generated code brought me more > problems than it solved. And I dont think Flash Builder will evolve any > more but IntelliJ will. > Its also a great IDE for Backend Java and Database stuff. > > > 2014-04-29 23:43 GMT+02:00 borekb <bor...@gmail.com>: > > > I've been a long-time FB user and currently switched to IDEA. Here are my > > opinions after about two months with the IDE: > > > > * The nicest thing about IDEA is how well it understands the actual code. > > FB > > was not too bad in this regards but IDEA can take you from an interface > to > > all the implementations in one click, suggests class names even in ASDoc > > comments, can draw quick UML diagrams on demand etc. All very useful for > > large projects. > > > > * IDEA indexes everything and is therefore very, very fast. Event full > text > > searches seem to use indexes, the speed is quite unrivaled. > > > > * I don't quite like the general usability of the IDE compared to > Eclipse / > > FB. The look is a bit weird, Eclipse has better windows / panels > > management, > > more consistent UI in many places and IDEA made some very weird design > > decisions in the past that I don't quite understand - for instance, there > > is > > no Problems View so you have to hunt for different problems in different > > places. Also, various code tooltips showing you a doc preview or method > > signature are implemented in a weird way and this is something that has > > annoyed me quite a bit. > > > > * My current project doesn't use MXML but the previous one did and I > > remember that I didn't like the editing experience very much. Writing > > ActionScript code is fortunately better - I find the editor itself > > (disregarding code intelligence) still slightly worse than what is in > > Eclipse but it's quite OK. > > > > * Unfortunately, IDEA renders ASDoc comments quite terribly. It doesn't > > understand some HTML tags, will not show inherited docs by default, wraps > > lines at strange places so the output is not a pleasure to read etc. > Again, > > an annoyance for day-to-day work. > > > > * JetBrains has an interesting approach to developing their IDEs - they > > push > > out new features like crazy but will not usually want to slow down a bit > to > > fix some deeper issues. Plus I could probably report a bug every 2-3 > hours > > I > > spend with IDEA which is an enormously high rate compared to the other > > IDEs. > > (Note, though, that I see as "bugs" even relatively minor things; the > main > > workflow works fine, it's just that the product is much less polished > than > > what I got used to with other IDEs.) > > > > Generally, despite some annoyances, I think that IDEA is a very good tool > > for Flex development and would buy it again. > > > > Borek > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/IDE-upgrade-options-tp6305p6328.html > > Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
