I run Windows XP both at home and work.
For a short period, I worked on a Linux (Debian) box at work, because
the
machine I got happened to had Debian installed and my boss, a Linux fan,
insisted that I should try it. At the time FlashDevelop was my main
editor,
so I had to run some Sun VM that booted a virtual windows. I also use
the
Flash IDE on a daily basis. Mostly for minor editing, but I need to
run Flash almost every day. It was naturally slow and some shortcuts
wouldn't work, which was a pain. I'd spend most of the time using
Windows on
the VM, so it made no sense and I soon gave up and installed Windows XP.
I'm one of the retardeds using Flex Builder for AS coding ;). It has its
pitfalls and I do miss some FD features, which I used almost
exclusively for
a long year. But now I can't live without a debugger that actually
works,
something I missed for years; and a passable profiler, which is not
so great
for measuring performance, IMO, but is invaluable when you're looking /
testing for memory leaks. Once you learn to use it, the "profilers" that
basically output System.totalMemory look like a bad joke. I hope some
day
they finally get around to add a GUI debugger to FD; having a nice
profiler
wouldn't hurt, either. But for now, I'd choose FB any day.
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2009/8/11 Steven Sacks <flash...@stevensacks.net>
My home computer is a Windows XP box.
My last full-time job was a Mac-only shop. So, I used Mac every day, 5
days a week, for 10 months.
Within a few weeks, I realized I couldn't live without FlashDevelop. I
installed Parallels 3 with Windows XP and figured out how to use
FlashDevelop in my workflow there.
I *love* Expose and Spaces. However, they are easier to live
without than
FlashDevelop. FDT and FlexBuilder both suck ass as Actionscript
editors
compared to FlashDevelop.
I cannot live without FlashDevelop. Period. Anyone who has spent any
serious time with it knows that it isn't an option. The day they
get it
working on the Mac is the day Flex Builder (ahem, Flash Builder)
sales see a
significant drop. The only reason so many people buy Flex Builder
for Mac
is because FlashDevelop is currently PC-only.
Actionscript coding in Eclipse is retarded. It's slow, clunky and
basically, sucks.
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