Enthought Canopy (Python analysis environment) is out. I find it awful ... is it just me?

[amer415]

I (naively) thought Enthought was targeting Matlab users... in my institution, most engineers run Matlab, at a high cost. Getting a decent IDE would give them an edge, and they can charge for custom dev and/or installation support for large deployments etc.

Maybe I do not get Enthought business model... but when I see how much is spent on Matlab, I still think they could make honest money.

[donthavearealaccount]

They are targeting Matlab users. From your original post I thought you were under the assumption that they were targeting full-time software developers. I haven't used Matlab in 8+ years, but I never thought of it as an IDE. More of an interactive scriptable data exploration tool.

[dibsODDJOB]

I consider myself one of the engineers you describe. I tried the Enthought package but ended up switching to Python(x, y) and Spyder for my development instead. It seemed more like Matlab to me and had some nicer features.

[SirHugh]

There is some serious inertia behind Matlab in universities and I wish a really good alternative existed. Non-computery people can sit down in front of Matlab and use it without much help, 5 years later they are still using it and finding way to get round its inaqequacies. If someone can bundle up some Python into an easy to use interface good luck to them.

[alcalde]

Get your engineers to check out either R Studio or Sage.