Flex builder sucks

flex builder sucks big time.
it take more than 250 mb ram even without any projects loaded
and help open. in work mode it takes more than 450 mb. which is
riduculus.
also its auto complete doesnt work properly. it vanishes most
of the time without reason.
it is very slow in everything specially since i have 1GB ram
and it is using it up all.
it hardly has anything except a flex ui designer (not
supporting all controls and properties) and auto complete (broken)
whoever thought everything should be made in java shud be
shot in the head six times plus one for good luck.
i just hope someone makes a better ide for flex.
in front of this vs.net2005 seems a baby at only taking 60+
mb of ram and well working far better and faster than this.

a company of this stature shudnt release incomplete stuff.
its not that i love visual studio each version has many bugs
which are never fixed only newer versions released which introduce
more bugs but one thing is that their ide is currently the best.
when you think they cant add more usefull stuff they yet add more
and lot more of it. hats off to those guys for thinking of the
unthinkable. and these features arnt those which u never use these
features are those which you use everyday to speed up development.
i am not saying think of new stuff just steal a lot of it
from them.
can you even list more than 30 features than really aid
development in the builder more than just a generic code editor.
look at vs.php its the best ide for php and they did the
smart thing. used a great ide for their own purpose and used it
well.
i aint saying eclipse is a bad ide i have never used it
otherwise but copuled with this it sucks. (same reason i stopped
using azureus and switched to utorrent)

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[svn] 3120: When you point Flex Builder at a local sandbox trunk build, it couldn' t generate the html-templates folder correctly for new projects so we moved all the html templates up one level and removed the html-templates directory and adjusted build

Revision: 3120
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-05 10:44:10 -0700 (Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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