Panelists: Eric Promislow and Trent Mick, ActiveState

Summary Komodo is ActiveState's Mozilla-based cross-platform integrated development environment targeted squarely at scripting languages such as Perl, Python and JavaScript. Its features include online help (giving programmers quick access to definitions, discussions, and examples), an interactive debugger (allowing programmers to see the program, even if it is running on a remote server, to facilitate remote debugging), and a full-featured, language-aware editor. Innovative features in this IDE include a regular expression debugger, remote file access and configuration, and multi-language scriptability of the IDE itself.

We will present our current version of Komodo, talk about the features we plan on adding before release, and solicit feedback from the audience as well as entertain questions. One of the topics we'll no doubt discuss is the nature of Mozilla, and why the Open Source community needs to pay close attention to it not just as a browser but as an application toolkit.