I’ve gotten in touch with JetBrains, and I secured a license for IntelliJ IDEA for any FlashPunk developers.
I think this is one of the best ActionScript IDEs for Mac (it still doesn’t compete with FlashDevelop on Windows, sadly). You can get a free 30-day trial from their site to see if you like it.
If you’re a developer who has submitted changes or pull-requests to the FlashPunk repository, you’re eligible for one of these licenses. If you’re interested, send me a PM.
That’s pretty awesome. I run Parallels just so I can use FlashDevelop, but it sure would be convenient to code natively on my Mac.
Ha… with that monster I bet you can run VMWare on your Windows box emulating Mac which in turn emulates Windows with Parallels and runs FlashDevelop, all without skipping a heart bit 
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seriously you should try it! (and report back!!)
Hehe, I mainly use that machine for gaming. I do have a Mac partition on it (again, with Parallels) but I tend to do most of my work on my MacBook Air!
… but yes. I’m tempted to give that a go 
That’s the same with me. My PC is goddamned beastly, but it’s a desktop in my office and not in my living room in front of the TV. The lack of a simple IDE on for Mac is the main reason I’ve not been very productive as of late.
Again, if you’ve contributed to the project, you’re eligible! Just shoot me a PM!
I’ve never contributed (as much as I’d love to) because I don’t actually really know how to use git, I’m ashamed to admit… I’m an SVN guy 
But it’s great that there will be guys around who have contributed that can benefit from this!
But yeah, it’s a bit of a pain working so deeply with two OS’s at the same time. There’s a lot of back and forth between (virtual) desktops - I’m getting used to the workflow having been using it for the last 9 months or so, but it’d still be nice to be working natively. That said the mobility of the laptop is far more important to me!
I can’t get over how Apple is always saying “our products are so easy to use!”, but when it comes to developing on their platforms…its a royal pain in the ass. If it takes me 20 minutes to get a simple game working on Android, why does it have to take 2 hours and $100 to test the same game on iOS?! >:(
/rant
That’d be because Android was made to be an open system, whereas iOS was made to be a closed one. Apple want to enforce a high barrier of entry in order to improve general app standards I’d imagine. It has kind of worked; there is a huge amount of tripe on Google Play. All the same, it’s a bit of a ballache for sure.
That would certainly be appreciated and I imagine would help to encourage more developers to contribute to the FlashPunk repository! I’ve seen this one and started following it a while ago, but I never got all the way through it: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/index.html?demo
Oh, how cool of them. I’m on Windows, though, and as you said, FlashDevelop it’s better. Is it good for other languages, though? I’m interested 
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