Richard Gaskin wrote:
Rev-based IDEs address an ultra-tiny market that's already fragmented as it is. I still can't get much work done in Rev, and I hear most of my clients curse as they use it, but if there's only three or four of us still using MC it does rather raise questions about the effort.
I think more people than you suspect still use it. But since we don't need to expend much effort, it doesn't hurt to keep it going. As far as I can see, the MC IDE will go away when there are no longer any people willing to maintain it. We don't need to make any decisions.
For the record, I still use MC for virtually all layout and design, because it is much faster and easier than in Rev. After the stack is built and scripted, I generally move to Rev for testing, tweaking, and standalone building. Best of both worlds.
I feel that MC has a much easier and useful control browser, property inspector, and set of keyboard shortcuts. This makes MC preferable for layout and building tasks; Rev slows me down too much. I think Rev's message box and standalone builder are superior to MC's, so I move over there for testing and building standalones. I prefer Rev's handler list at the left of the script editor over MC's popdown menu, but I hate how it stores text styles, so it's a toss-up there.
For me, they both have strong points and weaknesses, and I've figured out how to use each to my advantage so that I get the best of both.
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