Sapien Releases PrimalScript 4.1

Sapien Technologies announced ealier today the release of PrimalScript 4.1, a world class scripting editor and IDE.  New features include extensive support for Windows PowerShell (codename "Monad"), Microsoft's new command line shell and scripting language, as well as other major enhancements. 

While mainly focused on Windows scripting chores, PrimalScript supports over 40 languages, including CFML, ActionScript, Flex, Ruby, PHP, and Python.  I have been using the Enterprise edition of PrimalScript for quite a while, and it is a the best IDE I have ever used in terms of features and speed.  The Enterprise version features a top-notch XML editor/validator, Visual Query Builder and FTP client, with one click deployment to multiple hosts.

I moved from PS4 to Eclipse/CFEclipse a couple months ago, after Adobe released the CF RDS tools with FlexBuilder.  I had also been playing with Subversion/Subclipse for source control, which PrimalScript didn't support. However, things have changed and I plan on taking a look again.  Some of the features I am personally excited to try include:

• CVS/Subversion support - You are now not limited to just support for VSS as your source control system
• File Histories - This is a poor man's source control system PrimalScript keeps mulitple versions of your project files without the use of  a source control system
• Task Manager - I had asked for this one personally, nice to see they delivered. Provides the same type of task/todo list support found in Eclipse/CFEclipse

I will go into a full review and comparison at a later date, but if you are using Windows as your development platform, you should give PrimalScript 4.1 a try.