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FOSS IDEs recommendations? (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I use PyCharm for work but it's not FOSS or beginner-friendly. PyCharm does have a free community edition which is awesome if you're mostly into FOSS for the $0 aspect.

https://thonny.org/ - for the first few days of learning and easy setup
https://www.spyder-ide.org/ - especially good for data science
https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ - full-featured general purpose IDE

Codium is fine and technically FOSS although it's association with Microsoft taints it for anyone who still hates MS from the bad old days. Also it's an Electron app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Codium is fine and technically FOSS although it’s association with Microsoft taints it for anyone who still hates MS from the bad old days.

"New" Microsoft isn't really any better, and although Codium itself is perfectly fine (Electron notwithstanding) many of Microsoft's extensions only work with/are only licensed for the official VSCode build and include proprietary parts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

PyCharm community is FOSS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I got started with Spyder when learning python in biochemistry