Aptana Studio Reviews & Product Details

Quite fast. Sure, it's overpowered in some respects because it can allow you to switch, but the fact an IDE cares enough to let you do so is cool. I did enjoy it before I went the Sublime way because it was very resourceful. Plug and play fun with some of the irks taken away. Eclipse was the modern IDE of yesteryear because of the various ways you can add to the rep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes, it would crash if it not the standalone. Guess it's something you had to deal with at one point or another. It's a Front Ender's dream, so you can add PHP and Coldfusion support. Eclipse is not lightweight at all when you Lego build your layout. These days, though? it's harder to justify a not-so-faster solution than the current guys out there. Code even is a better alternative and I'm no where near a Microsoft backer. Aptana is probably the sledgehammer than can kill a fly or the swatter. If some more of the fat was taken out of the Eclipse part, I'd probably praise it better, but in the look department, it still looks like it came out during the first recession. Modernize it. Get the animations cleaner or take them out completely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As i have completed numbers of application, the best thing i like is "Easy to debug". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing much in dislike, but it would be better if search could work faster in enclosing project mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was intuitive the learning curve to do the basic development was not bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really can't remember really disliking any part of the software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Based on the eclipse framework, good scripting support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Light weight frameworks like Atom, Sublime fair much better in the competition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git Setup,

Adding plugins,

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nothing much to say here I totally like this alot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best Ediotr i terms of ease to use features and writing code and debugging becomes very easy with aptana. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes stuck when multiple apps working simuntanously may be due to lack of RAM in my system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's free and open-sourced. It supports lots of programming languages. It also supports plug-ins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The installation size is a little heavy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

user friendly, look, debug options, can create projects with different versions of python example 2x and 3x. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some times it is hanging when running multi threaded and multi process programs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that it's light and migration from eclipse wasn't a task.

Search was super easy.

The makers kept it a point that they didn't flood it with features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Developers require sync with FTP. If IDEs can provide that, it would be great. Versioning wasn't a great help either Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Of the functionalities of the Professional version, the most interesting or interesting to justify your purchase is the remote management of projects, but Aptana Community itself has a tool for FTP connection to upload or download files, as well as the synchronization of our contents in local with those of the remote server. Also if we want to make a secure FTP connection with the FTPS and SFTP protocols, it will be necessary to buy the Pro version. The debug in Internet Explorer is also interesting, as not, but if we have the opportunity to do it in Firefox it may be enough to evaluate if we are interested in buying before making it.

A very useful feature is that it provides the possibility of associating a project with an FTP connection to upload and download files directly to a production server.

Additionally, it provides a Plugins administrator for PHP code support, Ruby on Rails, Subversion integration, CVS and Git, support for libraries such as Adobe Spry, Adobe AIR, Yahoo YUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite being a very complete development environment, being based on Eclipse, this makes it a rather cumbersome IDE and applicable only to computers with certain features in their hardware.

It is paid. and you must buy the complete adobe suite, not sold separately.

To install plug-ins we have the Plug-in Manager, located at the bottom. I would like a simpler process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In Aptana Studio, the best things a liked are the way editor works. It is so easy for a developer to write a code. It also has such a well structured way of showing the folders and the pages. It also has a different color scheme to show .html files, .php, .js or .css. Managing multiple projects is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Things that I dislike in Aptana Studio is that, firstly the application takes a little more time than usual. The preference menu is a little difficult to navigate. It doesn’t have a preview option. It doesn’t have option to change the inline height. And the most important thing, it doesn’t even have option to keep back of the code. If Aptana Studio had an option to push changes on server, it would have been great. Installing Aptana Studio n your system is not easy sometimes. It keeps on crashing. It needs a 64-bit processor to install it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This was really easy to get started with. Nice features for the time it was developed. Pretty stable without crashing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doesn't really compare to what Visual Studio can do. Not a huge community behind it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aptana allows to quickly build web apps. I liked the code assist and Git integration feature which helped me to deploy my application seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aptana Studio 2 had some problems which are now overcome in Studio 3 so make sure you use the latest version of Aptana Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's many things that I like about Aptana Studio - I like that I can run individual projects, I can use many programming languages that I can and there's no limit to it. Also, it has a file system setup that it easily to find.

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I think that thing that need prove at is the work-space and the preference area too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Provides almost native look and feel for app

-No any extra effort to add third party plugins

-Good configurable options for IDE and project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-There is no any disliked features

-Only thing is need to optimise to use in average system configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the integrated development environment of Astana Studio. So far I use it for JavaScript, Python, Java and more. But you can for example program and debug your entire web application in the IDE. There are a lot of extensions/plug-ins available to support different technologies and programming languages. It has a lot of capabilities and flexibility. It is based on the Eclipse platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up your environment is a bit convoluted as is configuring your workbench. At least if you are not a daily user. But that is what you get from being such a powerful and flexible IDE. Aptana was acquired by Appcelerator and is now seemingly only maintained/developed by the open source community... Good or bad... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the code style, integrated debugger, show quick diff, code-assist, syntax highlighting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It crash at time on windows not very often Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aptana is a proper alternative to those other all-in-one web development IDEs. I prefer open source software when I can help it, and Aptana made it easy. Since it is based on Eclipse, it is easy to upgrade Aptana Studio with other functionality that's already available to Eclipse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a little clunky, but that seems to be the nature of Eclipse. Eclipse being a Java based power IDE does provide extensibility and good portability, but it can also lend to instabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multi-platform support Windows, Mac, Linux-

Plugin support to add programming languages-

Visual style editor for my optimum workflow-

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I consider these cons relative to expectations for actual tools offered.

I find few cons, these comments are when used with Mac OSX Mavericks thru El Capitan

Color syntax highlighting often ends after 120 characters on a line

I wish I could select multiple lines and decrease tab indent the same way I can do that and increase it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When editing HTML files in real time, Code Assist not only displays a list of matching tags, but it also includes graphical information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers..Also the interactive integrated debugger is an awesome feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At times, it is very slow and fails to respond to commands that I type in. Maybe it needs an update from the supplier or the manufacturer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use interface, file structuring & snippets, Once a project is setup it makes it really easy to use to update live/dev sites already on a remote server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Takes a bit to load up initially (could be my machine, getting a new one this week). Starting a project from scratch is a bit cumbersome, I often hand code a page and install into CMS, once it has been installed I use it for updates on live site updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aptana Studio is all I could hope for in a file editor (IDE).

Working in the Web development industry, what we strive to find everyday is a software that can offer everything in one single software: built-in FTP with many supported protocols, syntax highlighting, code assist, integrated debugger, git integration and many more...

I've used many other similar software, but none of which is offering the same features (or comparable) like Aptana Studio does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software seems to be hogging a lot of memory (on my MacBook Pro) while loading.

Note that it is faster on my iMac with an SSD drive, but this is minimal compared to what it offers!

Once the application is loaded, the software is working fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be used with a variety of programming languages. I use it for Python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a useful tool, so its nothing that I don't like. Although it has lot of other competitors too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how configurable Aptana Studio 3 is regarding UI style, how it lets you manage several projects and remote servers in tandem. The per-project Git integration is a bonus.

The deployment wizard is really handy for hooking a project up to a remote server in no time.

The built in console is excellent, and I use it primarily for Git, and navigating projects that contain multiple Git repositories.

The Open Resource tool (Ctrl + T) and Open PHP Element tool (Ctrl + Shift + T) are great for navigating files/classes across all projects.

The outline view is great for quickly navigating classes by their method names and allows quick identification of method visibility and scope.

Code hinting and navigation for simple to intermediate purposes works really well. Tool tips are shown for built in PHP functions, too, outlining their documentation.

It gives me everything I need to start working in a local development environment (aside from, of course, an HTTP server running PHP and a database server). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The preference menus inherited from Eclipse can be quite cumbersome to navigate.

It frequently forgets my preferences, such as PHP version for a project, or syntax highlighting theme for the entire IDE. I've gotten used to this but I shouldn't have to.

It often tries to re-index entire projects if they're introduced or change a lot, for searching and code-hinting purposes. This is slow and bloated in the sense that this interferes with UI responsiveness.

Code hinting and navigation through classes/methods in complex inheritance chains isn't up to scratch.

It hasn't been updated in years and offers no support for PHP versions beyond 5.4.

No line height configuration! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a front-end designer, Aptana attracts me as an ultimate development IDE with many built-in features. I find useful remote connection manager, terminal emulator, PHP and Java runtime, Git support. There are plenty of add-ons in the repository, and highly customizable workspace is a plus too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Disappointing is resource consumption and performance. Application starts slowly and it is a pain to work with it on low-end Linux boxes (sometimes I have to).

There is also some stability issues when auto-updating from repository. Once after update to latest version, Aptana for Mac OS X started to crash on launch, and I had to roll back manually.

A number of essential add-ons are missing in the repo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.