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Open Source Komodo IDEĪctiveState is open sourcing the entire Komodo IDE code base, minus the revision history. This means ActiveState will no longer provide new features/functionality, and will no longer create fixes for bugs or security issues. Komodo’s retirement means ActiveState will cease to develop code or create builds for Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit. It follows Komodo Edit, which has long been open sourced under the Mozilla Public License. We feel releasing the code to the community is the right thing to do. For this reason, we’ve decided to open source the code. It’s a set of users that have often helped us by contributing features and bug fixes to Komodo, or assisted other users by answering questions in the forums. Komodo IDE has a vocal, dedicated community of users. There are so many free code editors which means it’s not a good business to be in anymore.The amount of work to extend an EOL framework or even rewrite Komodo using a newer, supported framework just isn’t viable.For most independent developers this likely isn’t an issue, but it’s a non-starter for ActiveState’s enterprise customers. For example, notarizing Komodo in the OSX ecosystem is currently not possible since it’s built on an unsupported version of Xcode and the OSX SDK.Komodo is built on a rather old version of Mozilla, which is beginning to show its age on new releases of various OSs.Mozilla retired the framework Komodo is built on, XUL and XULRunner, back in 2016.In coming to our conclusion we wrestled with a number of factors: This has been a long and difficult decision. The NewsĪctiveState is officially retiring both Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit and open sourcing Komodo IDE. We all know it’s best to rip the bandaid off, so let’s get started. Some of you might have been too busy trying to get Komodo started on OSX.

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