Open Source languages are often deficient in one area when compared to commercial proprietary languages like C# (C Sharp). The problem is the lack of easy tools for application building. Tools like MS Visual Studio took programming out of the realm of guru’s and put it in the hands of just about anyone. This trend seems to be slowly disappearing with IDE’s for Open Source’s most popular languages slowly appearing as companies get behind OSS development. First it was IBM starting Eclipse for Java, and now we have the news that Maguma are releasing their PHP IDE “Maguma Studio” as Open Source starting in March. When it becomes available, you’ll be able to find it here. I’ve not used Maguma’s tools in the past, but the screen shots look very encouraging and I’ll be reviewing it when it becomes available.

This article was posted on Monday, February 28th, 2005 at 4:20 pm