During the beginning of this year I was coding a lot of PHP and classes at that, some stuff that would put my previous projects to shame (inheritance and all that jazz) and I was on the look out for a PHP IDE that would allow me to be able to speed up my development without having to memorize all the functions that I was creating. Happening to fall, as I often do, onto a seemingly great application, Zend Studio was at the same time the worst and greatest moment of my life. The best because they are a PHP development company so they obviously would be trying to ease the development of PHP applications, and worst because its written in JAVA! Fuck. I cant explain how irrational my hatred of java applications is except to show you a list of possible java application outcomes:
- Crashes
[thirty minute cool down break]
Well I have cooled down now from the recollection of memories associated with that poor excuse of an application. The ZS app was developed (probably) as an extension of another FANTASTIC JAVA fucking app called eclipse, which is an all around great IDE, except for the lack of support when it crashes and the enormous numbers of people telling me that I just don?t know how to use it, which is irritating in its own right. Not to mention that PHP is a web development language, so it would make A LOT of sense to have Eclipse have something like FTP Support, which it ?has.? It may have a plugin for it, but that doesn?t mean it works or that its intuitive.
So this project would be all about developing a C/C++ driven IDE damn near identical to its java brother, the main thing I would like to remove from it would be the crashing, because that?s a great way to get your day ruined.
