I never thought I'd ever write this, but after close to 40 years of using emacs for everything, I'm thinking of switching to a real IDE for python development. My latest evolution is emacs with elpy, which is pretty powerful as these things go, but I seem to spend more time configuring emacs and less time writing code than I want to. I got clarity on this the other day when I was comparing the toolforge bastion hosts, the cloud VPS images, and the kubernetes back ends to see which versions of emacs each one had and realized this really was the tail wagging the dog.
I'm kind of in "big paradigm shift" mode right now. Moving from Django to Flask. From mwclient to pywikibot. From unittest to pytest. I guess since I'm reinventing the universe, I might as well look at editors too. Other than the basic syntax coloring and auto-completion, I'm looking for good integrations with running unit tests and with git. I also need support for web technologies like HTML, jinja templates, and javascript in the same tool. I've heard good things about Sublime, but never used it. I'm not averse to purchasing a license if it's worth it. I've used Eclipse in the past for Java, and was pretty happy with that. I gather that Eclipse + PyDev is pretty neat but never tried it. I know a lot of people live in Jupyter, but that's not really my style. What else should I be looking at? What are folks out there using? _______________________________________________ pywikibot mailing list -- pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to pywikibot-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
