If I look at the screencasts, I think their php-plugin have slightly
surpassed pdt . Combined with their stronger support for html, js, css
and so forth they are an enormous threat to pdt. Aptana moves incredibly
fast. Almost each month they add a new library/plugin/language.
But I don't know how stable it is.
I simply don't understand why they can build such huge things (aptana
cloud anyone?) with a modest team, while simple features in phpeclipse
and pdt, whose teams only focus on php, takes years to come.
Check out aptana.com and look at their documentation, products,
screencasts, tutorials, and bug system: they must use some magic in
their office. I don't mean that pdt is particularly slow—I don't have
enough insight to judge upon that—but the competitor is apparently at
least 4 times stronger.
I think it will be a matter of a few months before support for php
frameworks will arrive in aptana.
The next competitive advantage in the php-IDE is php 5.3 /6.0 support. I
am curious who will be the first.