Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Appcelerator, Aptana & Pydev

Well, as publicized already, Aptana was acquired by Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com/appcelerator-acquires-aptana/).

So, I thought I'd write a bit about it...

First thing to note is that (as the rest of the team) I've joined Appcelerator, and the plan is to keep Pydev going forward (as it has been going since I had joined Aptana). However, unlike the rest of the team, I'm still based on Brazil :)

I think that the only difference in focus is that now, aside from the support for Django and Google App Engine, Titanium (which is Appcelerator's platform for developing desktop and mobile applications) will also have some special attention, although I still don't have more details on what exactly this means...

All in all, I think this was a good thing, as one of the things that Aptana was looking for was something to support (as the plans were always about giving Aptana Studio for free and making money on something else), and Appcelerator will have a nice improvement in terms of a better coding environment :)

2 comments:

cheve said...

I really think this is a good thing. I am an Aptana user mainly because of pydev and the Aptana editors works nice for my python+cherrypy development.

For appcelerator I think this is a great opportunity, they have an interesting product, but they really need an IDE for it.

cheve said...

I really think this is a good thing. I am an Aptana user mainly because of pydev and the Aptana editors works nice for my python+cherrypy development.

For appcelerator I think this is a great opportunity, they have an interesting product, but they really need an IDE for it.