Eclipse users: Do you use Aptana too? [closed]

Question

This San Mateo development company makes a freely downloadable convenient packaging of many plugins for Eclipse called Aptana. I was recently in an environment where Aptana came pre-installed. Not only is it a good IDE for RoR, it also does a somewhat decent job (sans debugging) for PHP, Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. According to their own web site, their IDE also supports Adobe Air and the iPhone.

If you are currently using Eclipse, then do you also use Aptana too? What, if any, are the drawbacks to using Aptana?

Answer 1

I have Aptana and Eclipse, but keep them separate since I do a lot of Java programming too. If you have one Eclipse with everything combined, then it turns into a bit of a memory hog (More so than usual) and takes too long to start up. Also, Aptana seems to thrust newsletters at you on startup, so if you use Eclipse for things other than Aptana-stuff, then this is another reason to keep it separate coz it gets a bit annoying after a while.

Answer 2

I use Eclipse with PyDev for Python programming, but I don't use Aptana.

Aptana just uses PyDev for its Python support, so really there is no incentive for me to add extra baggage I wouldn't use like Javascript support. If you actually needed all these things it seems nice, but I would prefer to just get each plugin separately as I need it.

Answer 3

I used to use Aptana for Rails development (and Eclipse for my Java development), but I've found it caused 10 second pauses now and again on my development PC and it was getting too annoying. I gave Netbeans a try (I used to use it for my Java development before Eclipse), preferred the Rails tools and haven't switched back to track down the cause of the pauses.

Aptana (RadRails) was definitely the best Windows Rails IDE a couple of years ago, but has fallen behind the times in my opinion.