Yahoo News and the Aptana Blog are reporting that version 1.0 of the Aptana PHP Development Environment has been released. I’ve been using Aptana since it was in pretty early beta. It’s been fairly buggy in its syntax highlighting and lackluster in its PHP support. I’ve been disappointed in the ease of use of its Ajax library support as well (specifically for mootools which I do 90% of my JavaScript development in).
Aptana is based off eclipse, which does a decent job with Java (though most Java developers I know prefer Net Beans). Zend released version 6 of its PHP IDE using eclipse which I’ve been using on my desktop and I feel it took a step back in many areas. I’m not totally sold on eclipse. Nonetheless if Aptana is any where comparable to Zend IDE 6.0 then it might hurt Zend in the IDE industry.
Now that Aptana has officially matured IMO to a 1.0 web development environment I’ll be using it a bit more, check back in the coming weeks for my Aptana rant.