Thursday, December 03, 2009

RIP Zend Studio 5.5.1

Although it's been several years since Zend Studio development has been ceased (the new product Zend Studio 6+ is a completely different application with just the same name), I'm still using it. And I know there are others who just can't get used to the new Exclipse IDE (Can't believe zend made this). Here I'll describe some of the bad things in Zend Studio (not necessary bugs) and propose a list of new features (this makes no sense, I know).

Problems:
  • Hangs a lot. Especially when switching projects or using SVN, CPU usage goes to 100% (or 50% on dual-core) and you can't close it, except for killing javaw.exe.
  • No code completion for arrays:



Impossible features:
  • Some nice refactoring like clicking on variable and making it a class member (with replacement suggestions from other places in the code):



  • to be continued...

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