CF Studio: Back From the Dead?
ColdFusion Studio hasn't really been updated since ColdFusion 5 (although you can download new tags definitions and help files for Studio from Adobe)
According to Adobe, there are several features of the upcoming ColdFusion 8 that would really benefit from having an IDE. So they are faced with three choices: enhance ColdFusion support in Dreamweaver, resurrect ColdFusion Studio, or do what other areas of Adobe are doing and build off of Eclipse (ala FlexBuilder). The ColdFusion development team in Bangalore already has prototypes of all three solutions, but no final decisions have been made. Which one would you rather see?
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As first I am hit with an urge to say "Oh dear lord, please let them keep releasing tag updates for studio" becuase I use HomeSite+ as my editor. But, then I just remember that ColdFusion is text-based. I don't use HomeSite+ for the tremendous tag editing or built-in help files (although those are really nice). I use HomeSite+ because it is very fast, has excellent color coding, doesn't bog down my machine, allows me to run multiple instances with ease, has split directory/file view, as excellent tabbing unlike other IDE (Eclipse you know who you are!!), and has fairly great Snippet and Code Template support.
Evey time I get nervous that future versions of ColdFusion are going to force me to move to a not-so-ben-friendly editor, I just remember that it's all text-based and there is nothing about HomeSite+ that could possibly be affected by changes to ColdFusion as long as it stays text-based.
Anyway, just my little rant about the old-school text editor and a plea for Adobe to continue to upgrade tag defs.
My impulse is to say "Go Eclipse". I also wouldn't mind seeing an Eclipse based version of the report builder.
Despite what Ben said, I always found Homesite+ / CF Studio to be resource hog. ( Not to the lengths that Dreamweaver goes, but its still a hog )
Its for sure... Eclipse!
Eclipse isn't much better in the resource hogging department. It takes up well over 100Mb of RAM on my machine. Even worse is flexbuilder which I've seen consuming over a whopping 300Mb
1. CFStudio
2. Eclipse option (CFEclipse)
3. Dreamweaver
I've tried using all three in the past six months. CFEclipse is lovely but rough and Eclipse has many features that get in the way. CFStudio/Homesite is still my fastest editor.
Dreamweaver is ok. Nothing more than that.
Whatever is picked it should be cross-platform. That is one HUGE plus for CFEclipse.
Drop studio/homesite and put resources (cash/developers) into cfeclipse.
CF STUDIO!!
I still use the studio 4.0 IDE with the latest tag library help files. Studio 5 was a HOG to run on my machines Ditto JRUN studio so I went back to 4.0 studio years ago!
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