I’ve been waiting for this one for quite some time. Zend Studio 5.5 , is now a universal binary. This is great for two reasons,
- I have a macbook pro now, and I couldn’t use Zend Studio on it.
- It’s 5.5, which was magnitudes faster than 5.0 on OSX PPC, none of the speed has been lost in the intel version.
I’ve given it a whirl, and so far I’m impressed with it. I’ll evaluate it for the next 30 days, I’m hoping for myself and for Zend, that I like it enough to justify renewing my License. Noteable changes for Mac users.
- Even with the “OS Look and feel” turned on, it’s very fast.
- In preferences, you can turn on “anti aliasing”, this makes it look less like the bastard child previous versions used to.
- Related to item above, even though the antialiasing is an improvement, more can still be done.. { } and ( ) are not distinguishable at all, and I can’t change my font from Courier New to something else.
- When creating a new project, you now have the option to specify JAR files in the path, not sure why.. but you can do this now.. if someone can tell me why this would be necessary I’d love to hear from you.
- Built in integration for Zend Framework, it seems the code completion knows all about the Zend Framework, not sure what to think of this yet. Looks and smells like nepotism tho…
- ‘Enable Strict PHP Syntax’ option, again not sure what it does, but I’m guessing it’ll tell you when you’re using references in the wrong place, or something like that.
Things to note, I am testing this on the latest seed of Leopard, so the antialiasing thing could be an issue within the OS. At the same time, the app installed fine without any issues in Leopard. Yay.
