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Andris Pelcbergs

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Available in standalone and Eclipse plugin versions

Aptana Studio has standalone (130.7 MB for Windows) and Eclipse-plugin versions.

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Andris Pelcbergs

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HTML5-aware code assist

Aptana's code assist displays which tags are supported by which browsers.

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Laura Kyle

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Support for web projects

Aptana was specifically created for web application development. It supports a variety of languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby.

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Built-in terminal

Has a built-in terminal emulator from which you can run commands.

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Free and open source

Aptana is available for free under the GPL license with source code available on GitHub.

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Git integration

Aptana provides integrated support for Git to make collaboration and version control easier.

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Endi Sukaj
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No longer updated

Language support is increasingly dated.

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Laura Kyle

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Many dependencies

Aptana has a couple of dependencies to keep in mind.
It is built with Java and and has some requirements for the JDK version.
Aptana requires Git, and Eclipse 3.5+ if you are installing it as an Eclipse plugin.

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