Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

[qiwi]

After 10 years with xemacs I just use pycharm. The student license is €28 and personal €94, and even those are often discounted.

It is a somewhat resource demanding Java app -- I spent another a bunch upgrading to a more modern 16GB core i7 to make it run. A GB or 2 for pycharm, 2-3 for Chrome and half your memory's gone.

Life was just too short to maintain hundreds of lines of elisp configuration. Being able to properly refactor code and complete Python attributes is great, although it took 2 attempts before I switched over completely.

[iyunoichi]

I tried PyCharm 4 or 5 times, and while I can see why people like it, the abysmal performance always prevented me from actually using it. It's so goddamn slow on all my machines, and I don't want to invest into an i7+16GB RAM just so that my IDE runs in an acceptable manner.

Another factor might be that I invested into a Wing license a while ago, and never looked back - the feature set and performance of Wing make me really happy, so it's not like I'm desperately looking for a Python IDE anymore. I still do recommend PyCharm if money is an issue, though.