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ActiveState drops Visual Studio plug-ins for Perl, Python, XSLT; adds Ruby on Rails to IDE
The ActiveState giveth, the ActiveState taketh away.
With the latest release of its Komodo IDE for dynamic languages such as Perl and Python, ActiveState has jettisoned support for Visual Studio, citing a release-schedule conflict and a lack of customer interest.
ActiveState also announced in December that it would drop its engineering support for the Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT plug-ins in Visual Studio 2002 and 2003, and that there will be no upgrade for VS 2005.
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