On Monday, January 2, 2017 at 6:39:03 AM UTC-5, Antonio Caminero Garcia wrote: > Hello, I am having a hard time deciding what IDE or IDE-like code editor > should I use. This can be overwhelming. > > So far, I have used Vim, Sublime, Atom, Eclipse with PyDev, Pycharm, IntelliJ > with Python plugin. > > The thing with the from-the-scratch full featured IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ, > Pycharm) is that they look like a space craft dashboard and that unwarranted > resources consumption and the unnecessary icons. I want my IDE to be > minimalistic but powerful. My screen should be mostly “made of code” as > usually happens in Vim, Sublime or Atom. However, Pycharm is really cool and > python oriented. > > The problem with Vim is the learning curve, so I know the very basic stuff, > but obviously not enough for coding and I do not have time to learn it, it is > a pity because there are awesome plugins that turns Vim into a lightweight > powerful IDE-like. So now it is not an option but I will reconsider it in the > future, learning little by little. Also, I am not very fan GUI guy if the > task can be accomplished through the terminal. However, I don’t understand > why people underrate GUIs, that said I normally use shortcuts for the most > frequent tasks and when I have to do something that is not that frequent then > I do it with the mouse, for the latter case in vim you would need to look for > that specific command every time. > > Sublime is my current and preferred code editor. I installed Anaconda, Git > integration and a couple of additional plugins that make sublime very > powerful. Also, what I like about sublime compared to the full featured IDEs, > besides the minimalism, is how you can perform code navigation back and forth > so fast, I mean this is something that you can also do with the others but > for some subjective reason I specifically love how sublime does it. The code > completion in sublime I do not find it very intelligence, the > SublimeCodeIntel is better than the one that Anaconda uses but the > completions are not as verbose as in the IDEs. > > Now, I am thinking about giving a try to Visual Studio Code Edition (take a > look, it sounds good > https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.python). I > need an editor for professional software development. What would you > recommend to me?
I am told that means other than Emacs exist to edit code and interact with systems, but I don't worry about them. Happy New Year, Chris -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
