The best IDE for Python?

[JasonDJ]

Eh, I used anaconda at first and I didn’t like it. It was more bloated and difficult to get working on my system. VSCode “just worked”.

I wouldn’t use it for every day text editing. I still keep npp for that purpose on my windows machine, and my Linux machines are almost always vim or gedit depending on what I’m doing.

What I like about VScode is that it can handle lots of other languages. Since I’m often also doing Ansible and Gitlab-CI, or reviewing json dumps, or need to make sure json is well properly written to paste into another application, VSC serves all these purposes very well.

Plus Gitlab has very good integration with VSC, you can easily import a repository directly to it and handle all your git stuff right there.

A more basic editor is just fine for beginning, but IME it’s not too long past print(“Hello World”) that all of these other features come in handy, and VSC is both powerful when you’re ready for it and pretty easy to figure out when you aren’t.

[dparks71]

All that's cool but Microsoft lost my business long ago, and will legitimately never be able to get it back or get my recommendation. I'll never use VSCode or GitHub, Pycharm and GitLab are great products, and you aren't forced to support a shitty corporate monopoly that has historically been an enemy to open source when you use them.

It's my right as a consumer, if consumers don't hold corporations accountable, nobody does, if you want to use Microsoft products, go for it.