IntelliJ 8.1 and Flex support
Posted by cornel | Filed under Flex
Today I’ve played a little bit with IntelliJ 8.1 testing the Flex support. While there is a lot of room for improvement (it is much harder to create an IDE for ActionScript than one for Java) it has some nice features, some of them missing from Flex Builder (code formatting, optimizing imports, refactoring features). Taking into account that JetBrains was able to produce one of the best Java IDEs I expect that they will become in one or two years an important player for Flex development.
I think that the increasing number of IDE tools for Flex (Flex Builder, FDT, IntelliJ, Amethyst, Tofino and maybe others that I don’t know) confirms the momentum behind Flex – and also that is probably the number one solution for building RIA applications.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Have to agree with you here. I’m using IntelliJ also for Flex development. It’s a little flaky at the moment but simply having all the hotkeys set up like IntelliJ plus some (okay pretty basic) refactoring support rocks.
I use it in conjuction with the awesome flex-mojos project which makes it feel like home.