Thoughts on Development IDEs

REALbasic In January, REAL Software released REALbasic 2006, which added several new features to REALbasic, including language enhancements and IDE enhancements. Most notable for me is the ability to have shared (aka static) methods on classes. I also think the new ability to script the IDE will be quite useful. I haven’t had a chance to play around with RB 2006 a lot yet, but I have verified that UltraToolBar and RBUnit work with it on all platforms (Mac OS X, Windows XP, SUSE Linux 9.2). Visual Studio Lately much of my time has been spent in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. In addition,... read more