Based on what's been completed of this review I decided to try out the program and compare it against my current editor of choice - Komodo Edit - because the overall philosophy behind them seems similar. Since I mostly deal with HTML I could never justify purchasing Komodo IDE for close to $400.
So far I have to say my first impression seems pretty accurate. There's a lot for me to learn to translate what I do in Komodo Edit to Zeus but I'm already very impressed with the amount of work put into making it work with so many freely available tools and proactively providing solutions (via the support forum) for numerous scenarios.
-Vurbal
I think your experience with the price is very similar to mine. I know that people say that software is only worth what will be paid for it, but it's more than that. It seems that the whole philosophy with Zeus Edit is to give you an IDE that you can justify the price of easily. My employer pays for the basics in an IDE... which for C# is Visual Studio. But as a programmer, I prefer something lean- which is what the alternate IDEs are. But I don't have the deep pockets of my employer, so justifying a $400 price tag is hard.
I had a deadline come up at work, but I plan to jump back into this. But I will say, having to get stuff done rather than just evaluating and putting Zeus to the test, I'm
very impressed with how seamlessly it has fit into and become a vital part of my workflow.