Zend Studio for Eclipse is fail August 4, 2008
After probably the 100th fatal issue in Zend Studio for Eclipse I have had enough. As other have noticed, Zend Studio for Eclipse gets stuck on building projects fairly often and losing work is common.
The product is obviously aimed at the professional PHP developer market, as it has some pretty advanced features in place. However in it’s current state, I would not recommend Zend Studio Eclipse to anyone. I’ve lost a lot of work to this product and today was the final straw.
Where to from here? Well I’ve been down the Dreamweaver path before. Not that great but at least it doesn’t crash in such a devastating fashion and as frequently. However I might just get back to basics and use Vim. At least with Vim I know my work is safe (I’ve NEVER had OS X crash a terminal).
If you are heading the Vim road, give TextMate a bash - http://macromates.com/
It really is an amazing text editor and the plugin bundle support is amazing. Took me a while to get used to but now I couldn’t use anything else.