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I've never heard of this IDE until today but they get to version 10 which mean they've been around for quite a long time.

Can someone share their experience using this? Versus others IDE.

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Im a former Komodo Edit (the free version of Komodo IDE) user before finally switching to JetBrain products. 3 things that come to mind:

* Komodo is built on top of Mozilla app framework. Its lighter in terms of startup time and memory footprint than java based IDE.

* Its search feature is so good that I sometimes use it to find files in my computer.

* Komodo IDE is rather expensive which stopped me from upgrading. Though I think they lowered their prices lately.

I don't think they lowered their prices but Jetbrains did raise their prices recently so there is a little bit of price competition now. Before, Pycharm was $100 where Komodo was $250 and PyCharm worked better. Now PyCharm is $200/yr. so the $50 difference might be enough if Komodo is significantly faster than PyCharm (which is pretty slow sometimes).

Individual PyCharm is $90/73/51 for the first three years, $51/yr after. Corporate-purchased licenses are $200/159/119 with a $119 tail.

Doesn't change your point much, but it is cheaper than you indicated (even for corporate, if the subscription is continuously renewed).

Hi there, I'm the lead dev for Komodo. Just wanted to point out that Komodo IDE is $147 for individuals. The individuals price is below the fold on the pricing page, so you might not see it at first glance.

A long time ago (around 2006) I started using Komodo. I started off with the "Edit" version and quickly upgraded to the full IDE. I loved it. As someone else mentioned, there's nothing better really for remote dev work. The editor works nicely on Win/OS X/Linux and presents roughly the same behavior on all. For Win it's extremely nice, as it presents an ease of use for remote development that I'd only ever gotten within Linux using ssh. You can edit locally over sftp/ftp/etc. and save just as easily as if you were logged into the remote terminal directly. There are a huge number of features that are useful for Python/Perl (like regular expression checkers) that visually show what you've screwed up within your regex. If you've ever tried to write a regex for something that is especially complex, you'll know what I'm talking about, this is quite a nice feature (perhaps duplicated by some open source tools). Komodo also provides syntax highlighting for quite a few other languages (although,I found it lacked HDL support at the time which I would have liked). It's not just for Python/Perl/Tcl, provides support for C/C++/Java as well (at least it used to, haven't tried in a little over a year). If you're looking for an IDE, I highly recommend this one. It is as simple in appearance as a text editor+++, but in reality is is quite a bit more. It's probably one of the best cross platform editors that I've tried, and I've tried quite a few. Honestly, I use vim almost exclusively these days. If I ever had to go back to developing on a Windows machine, or developing for Python/Perl exclusively I'd definitely consider going back to Komodo more often....

Back in the distant past, when we prefixed our variables with dollar signs and goshdarn liked it, one of Komodo's selling point was its support for some of the less supported languages -- the parent company was mainly known for supplying the most widely used Windows distributions of Perl and Tcl (ActivePerl and -Tcl).

The free versioon, Komodo Edit, never was all that interesting compared to "proper" IDEs. It was more lightweight than Eclipse and more "mainstream" than vi/emacs, so I've seen it used occasionally on Linux systems. Not in recent years though, as platform editors like gedit and kate became more capable, Sublime entered the stage as a nice medium ground and systems became more capable to run the more monstrous IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ/WebStorm/etc) without a noticeable impact.

i am aslo kind of surprised by their resilience its an expensive ide 245 for commercial license, and 145 for personal

you can download komodo edit, its free, and you will get the feel of what its about

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