I've been using it, off and on, for about 3 months now. I was asked by the DW team (well the ADC/DW people) to update some older DW/CF articles, therefore, I had to use. I told them right out that I was a DW Hater, but since this would help folks who were using CF, I agreed to it.
Surprisingly, I've found DW to be very nice. It is very responsive and while it may be known as a RAM hogger, I have to say that DW performs FAR better on my system then Eclipse does. For about 6 months now Eclipse has just been crap in regards to performance. Not all the time of course, but a few times a week it decides to just slow down to a halt. This isn't CFE's fault since my latest Eclipse build doesn't even have CFE in it. Rather I believe it is one of the Groovy/Java/etc plugins I've added for my day to day work. Anyway, the point is - DW screams on my system and I've been enjoying using it. I'd probably move to it full time for my CF work if I had an easy way to import the projects I've set up in my CFE. Going back to JS, folks should check out some of the features that were added in CS4. They added some _incredibly_ powerful code rewriters for JS work. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed that the chatter around DW CS4 has increased a lot lately. > > Isaac, Aaron, Massimo, Michael, et al, are discussing it, and, Isaac, > you stated that you "want to use it." > > And for those of you, like Isaac, who would "really like to use it," > my question is, why use DW CS4 instead of say, CFEclipse, when DW is $400 > and CFE is free? (Also especially since Adobe's IDE is right around the > corner...) > > It's a sincere question, because although I like CFE, it's lacking some > features, such as FTP connectivity and manual (saved!) code folding, that > I really want. So I'm considering DW. > > I've considered downloading it and giving it a shot, but I've done that since > before it was called "Drumbeat" and I've never found it appealing, especially > not at $400. > > So, what makes it so good in you who are using it? Is it's feature set, or > stability, or whatever, the selling point for you? > > Thanks for the feedback... > > Rick > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316666 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
