Comments on: My verdict on FDT

By: aristophrenia

aristophrenia — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:22:59 +0000

FDT is for gown ups.
The sheer number of tools I have at my disposal is insane – plugins from pixel bender etc. FlashDevelop is – sorry – a toy next to eclipse.

By: Semjanin

Semjanin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:20:39 +0000

По моему мнению Вы ошибаетесь. Могу отстоять свою позицию.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:27:46 +0000

I don’t know if I’m missing something, but refactoring doesn’t seem to be something I do often. Maybe it is because of the type of project I am doing which are more microsites or websites that are not modified often. That might explain why I don’t find FDT more useful than FlashDevelop.

By: echo5-7

echo5-7 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:51:50 +0000

FDT was open source when it was released, but it was to difficult to build up a developer community around the tool. So the powerflasher decided to keep the code, and since then, the FDT is more popular for business clients.

By: rich

rich — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:28:57 +0000

FlashDevelop is great for a free tool and works really well for small projects, but for larger scale stuff the added power of a proper debugger, refactoring, and built in svn are essential. The fact it’s eclipse based is also a plus for me, switching between different perspectives for other tasks is really useful.

I’m using Flash Builder at the moment and still can’t believe how much Adobe have left out – full template support and code completion being the biggest issue. Hopefully this will be resolved in the full release.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:32:27 +0000

I have just begun to start using FlashDevelop myself. Glad to know I am not missing out on anything. Thanks for conducting this experiment.

great wordpress template btw.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:29:11 +0000

I am a huge FDT fan, mostly for one reason- refactorig. Your top 3 things you liked: debugger, compiler errors and ant support are (to me) rarely used. I don’t even use templates.

But refactoring… I use it tremedously. I know the FDT guys are pushing to have more refactoring power with it, but it will be a little more time before it’s at where something like intellij idea 9.

It’s a tough call, because a developer has to be familler with heavy and constant refactoring, a la Fowler and Martin style, before they understand how nessecary it is. It’s a chicken and the egg thing.

If someone is a developer and doesn’t need the team integration, automation and refacotring powers of FDT. Then FlashDevelop is a great alternative.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:59:52 +0000

@ray When trying FDT I paid attention to details and I wanted to find features that made it better, so I came across templates and snippets and I tried to learn the shortcuts. So when I went back to FlashDevelop I was happy to see it had all those options also. We then translated our templates from FDT to FlashDevelop. @ Tahir Ahmed I also think project creation and management in FlashDevelop more intuitive than in Eclipse.

By: ray

ray — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:22:40 +0000

Stuff like templates, snippets and short keys are all available in FDT.

By: Tahir Ahmed

Tahir Ahmed — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:08:53 +0000

I use FlashDevelop too and find it way better than FDT and FlexBuilder (I haven’t tried FlashBuilder yet). FlashDevelop’s clean interface and easy project navigation are things, IMHO, keeps it on top of the other contenders.

And, ofcourse, FlashDevelop is free.

- Tahir.