FDT 3.0 out — in three flavors

My tool of choice, FDT 3.0, has been officially released. No more beta! I was in the beta test program and it has been very exciting to see the progress of this wonderful tool. As I said before, if you haven’t tried it out; please do so. There’s a free 30 day trial too.

FDT 3.0 packs a whole bunch of features which put the older 1.5 to shame (I won’t even try to compare it to flash, or even flex builder). Features include advanced code completion, an automatic formatter, quick fixes & assists, templates, organizing imports & automatic importign, launchers, semantic highlighting and much, much more. The biggest one though is definitely AS3 support which works like a charm. In short, it has changed the way I work. If Actionscript is the language that brings the bread to your table, go give FDT a spin.

I was kind of surprised to see the split into different versions. While I understand this step as a good “excuse” to make some extra cash (which is well deserved), i find it kind of annoyed. I own a license for FDT 1.5, which I bought when I read that the upgrade will be 99€. Now, however, I’m reading this is just for the basic version which is kind of disappointing. 599€ for the enterprise version is still quite a bit more (i definitely want the debugger and advanced refactoring tools).