I’m getting back into coding and I’m going to start with python but I wanted to see what are some good IDEs to write the code. Thanks in advance.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    171·
    9 days ago

    My husband, who mostly codes in assembly these days (he’s mostly retired so his hobby is old atari, amstrad, and spectrum computers), went from VSCode, to Sublime, to now Kate. He prefers to use 100% open source apps, without strings attached. VSCode is nice, but it has lots of weird stuff in it that aren’t necessarily up to the spirit of open source. So Kate works perfectly for him, although VSCodium would do well as well (it’s just that Kate has better syntax highlighters for his weird assembly). Also VSCode/ium is using about 250 MB of RAM, while Kate about 45 (and Sublime only about 32).

    • SpiceDealer@lemmy.worldOP
      132·
      9 days ago

      (he’s mostly retired so his hobby is old atari, amstrad, and spectrum computers)

      Your husband is an absolute legend.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    Honestly, just try a few of the big ones and see what you like, I feel like with IDEs it’s all about personal preferences and rarely about actual amount of features.

    Good ones to start with can be PyCharm and vscodium, but try a few, that’s the best option.

    • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Ya ime it’s mostly about what people are comfortable with. People who care about all the features :tm: go to emacs, people who want to use an instrument stick with vim, and old people use nano

  • leastprivilege@lemmy.ml
    4·
    8 days ago

    Neovim! Here is a good video to get started TJ DeVries. If you just want to give it a shot there are a lot of preconfigured options like lunar vim or NVchad.

    • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      LunarVim is dead I think. In the issues section the (main?) dev says they recommend switching to something else and that they have gone over to Astronvim.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    4·
    8 days ago

    Because people ask for an IDE, rather than an editor, I will say :

    Vim + terminal(s) + containerization (e.g. Docker CLI, Python venv) + live reloading (e.g. nodemon or inotify or in the browser using e.g. server side events) + repository management (e.g. git in CLI to juggle between branches, push/pull local/remotely)

    IMHO this is very VERY light (0 wait even on a RPi Zero) and yet very flexible.

    Also most of that can be “saved” via e.g screen the CLI tool, allowing to have named windows in a terminal and a lot more than to e.g. screen -raAD, locally or remotely.

  • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    I’m slowly learning Emacs, I’d say I like it but it’s a lot of config work and I wouldn’t recommend it to somebody who hasn’t programmed before.

    • conrad82@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      I agree. I learned and used emacs and org mode for several years. With age, I now want simpler tools that do not need extensive configuration. Using mainly Spyder and VS Code for python coding

  • tapdattl@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 days ago

    I’m a big fan of vim/neovim with nerdtree and airline added in.

    I’ve also been tryingourt Zed recently, it natively supports vim keybindings, so my workflow hasn’t changed, but its lightning fast (programmed in rust) compared to vs-codium (an electron app)

  • krigo666@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 days ago

    Eclipse Theia if you already know VSCode.

    It copied the interface and functionality and is compatible with most VSCode extensions. Available as an AppImage on Linux.