FDT 3.0

The auto-complete in FDT is really clever and speeds up the development process. If you change a class so this will break functionality in other classes using it, you'll get instant feedback in the project view making it easy to see where you'll need to update your project. FDT even inspects compiled SWCs, making it easier to use external libraries by creating intrinsic classes for these. If you're using libraries that change often, you'll be able to easily see if a new version of a library breaks your project.

FDT also does optimization at compile-time, so if you have duplicate classes (i.e. in SWC libraries), FDT will optimize these unwanted classes away before compiling. Another great feature showed in Cologne was a powerful code formatter that can be a huge timesaver if you have developers with varying coding style. Using this, you could quickly standardize your code.

The new version also features changes to the pricing. FDT will now be offered as FDT Student, FDT Basic and FDT Enterprise. The difference is mainly in the pricing and the amount of support offered. PowerFlasher still offers the plugin for free to "brilliant OS developers", so if you feel that you qualify, you can apply for that as well. The new version is called 3.0 even though the former version was 1.5. We assume this is just a numbers game, not to be outnumbered when Flex 3 arrives?