I’ve been meaning to write a more meaningful review of Kodomo 3.5 beta for Windows, but have decided to hold off until I can evaluate a non-beta version. My reason for doing this is because of the fact that it is still in beta, and so, I think it’d be unfair if I critique a product that may still have its functionality changed before the real release.

For example, I have successfully been able to use Kodomo to debug one of my actions. But, because it was so incredibly slow to debug this action through Kodomo, I’ll never do it again. At least, until the speed issue is resolved. And I know that it will be resolved eventually, as it is noted as a problem here in Eric Promislow’s blog.

There are other issues that I’ve encountered that I’m not sure are actually issues with the IDE or just with me as a user of the IDE. For example, I could not get the intellisense to work with my Rails models.

Anyway, when I get my hands on a non-beta version of Kodomo 3.5, I’ll write up a better review. Until then, I may continue to use it to write my Rails apps, but only in the same way that I’d use any other text editor.

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