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PyCharm Community Edition vs Vim vs Visual Studio Code

 vs Geany vs Spyder vs Spacemacs with Python layer vs Neovim vs Atom vs Eric Python IDE vs Emacs vs Wing IDE vs Eclipse with PyDev vs Intellij vs Thonny vs Sublime Text 3 vs Light Table vs Notepad++ vs PyScripter vs PyCharm Professional Edition vs Ninja IDE vs Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin vs PaizaCloud IDE vs IDLE vs CodeLobster IDE vs Komodo Edit

Specs

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Linux, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License

Vim License

Extension language

Vim

Price

0

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

License

MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Extension language

JavaScript

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Git

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

Yes

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

License

GPL-2.0-only

Extension language

C

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

No

Source Control Integration

Via Plugin

Code Templates

No

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

No

Supported remote file editing protocols

None

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

No

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

No

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

Not sure

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows, Unix, Mac

License

GPLv3

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

No

Plugin Manager

Yes

Unit Testing

No

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

plug-in

Supported keybinding styles

Vim, Emacs

Column selection

Yes

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android

License

Apache

Extension language

Any

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

scp, ftp

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

Vi

Column selection

Yes

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Microsoft Windows®, macOS, Linux

License

MIT

Extension language

JavaScript

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes (plugin)

Auto Complete

Yes (plugin)

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

Git

Code Templates

Yes (plugin)

Plugin Manager

Built-in

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

FTP (plug-in); SSH (plug-in)

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

Plug-in

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

Plug-in

RTL

No

Bidi

No

Dev platforms

Microsoft Windows®; macOS; Linux

Export

HTML

Preview

Live side-by-side

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

No

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Extension language

Emacs Lisp, C(Emacs modules)

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes (package)

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

Package, built-in

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

FTP; HTTP; SSH; WebDAV

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

Yes

Supported keybinding styles

IBM CUA; OSX; Vi; Emacs; Pico; WordStar; WordPerfect; Brief

Column selection

Yes

RTL

Yes

Bidi

Yes

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

Yes

Refactoring

Yes

Interactive Debugger

gdb (for C)

Go to Definition

Yes

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Linux, Windows, macOS

License

Commercial (with paid and free editions)

Extension language

Python

Price

US $69-179 annual or US $95-245 perpetual (and 2 free options)

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Python

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

Yes

Unit Testing

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

Yes

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

No

Supported keybinding styles

VI, Emacs, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and others; can be customized

Column selection

Yes

RTL

No

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

Yes

Refactoring

Yes

Interactive Debugger

Yes

Go to Definition

Yes

Go To Definition

Yes

Find References

Yes

Code Analysis

Yes

Code Coverage integration

No

PyLint integration

Yes

Auto Import

No

Free Trial

Yes

Interactive Shell

Yes

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes (CPython, IronPython, Jython, PyPy)

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

Yes (through EGit)

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

Yes (unittest, pytest, nose)

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

Yes

Refactoring

Yes

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

Yes

Find References

Yes

Code Analysis

Yes

Code Coverage integration

Yes

PyLint integration

Yes

Auto Import

Yes

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows, macOS, Linux

License

MIT

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows, Linux, Mac

License

MIT

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

REPL

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

Yes

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

No

Supported keybinding styles

IBM CUA, Vim (plug-in); Emacs (plug-in),

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows

License

GPL-3.0-or-later

Extension language

C/C++; any language able to interface with C code

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

Built-in

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

FTP; SSH (plug-in)

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

Plug-in

Supported keybinding styles

IBM CUA

Column selection

Yes

RTL

Yes

Bidi

Yes

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

No

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

$200/years

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

No

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

No

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

No

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

Yes

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

Yes

Root access

Yes

Floating window mode

Yes

No credit card

Yes

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

-

License

-

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

-

Auto Complete

-

Multi Language Support

-

Integrated Debugger

-

Error Markup

-

Source Control Integration

-

Code Templates

-

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

-

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

-

Supported keybinding styles

-

Column selection

-

RTL

-

Bidi

-

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

-

Root access

-

Floating window mode

-

No credit card

-

Platforms

Windows; macOS; *nix

License

MPL; GPL; LGPL

Extension language

-

Price

-

Bracket Matching

Yes

Auto Complete

Yes

Multi Language Support

Yes

Integrated Debugger

Yes

Error Markup

Yes

Source Control Integration

Yes

Code Templates

Yes

Plugin Manager

-

Unit Testing

Yes

Supported remote file editing protocols

-

Cross Platform

-

Collaborative editing

Yes

Supported keybinding styles

OSX; Vi; Emacs

Column selection

-

RTL

No

Bidi

No

Dev platforms

-

Export

-

Preview

-

Interactive Console

-

Refactoring

-

Interactive Debugger

-

Go to Definition

-

Go To Definition

-

Find References

-

Code Analysis

-

Code Coverage integration

-

PyLint integration

-

Auto Import

-

Free Trial

-

Interactive Shell

-

Free

-

Git

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Root access

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Floating window mode

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No credit card

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Pros + Cons

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 Version control integration 

PyCharm has CVS, Git, Subversion and Mercurial integration.
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 Sophisticated autocompletion 

PyCharm includes sophisticated heuristics for determining what each variable type is and providing autocompletion suggestions for them.
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 Excellent refactoring support 

There are many refactoring options including renaming and changing signature across entire projects. It also includes the an ability to preview changes before committing and exclude anything unwanted.
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 Excellent debugger 

PyCharm can leverage run-time information when running your application with the built-in debugger to figure out what types can possibly be passed to which functions, etc.
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 Memory-hungry

Can use a lot of memory (several GBs), especially when dealing with large projects.
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 Can sometimes become very slow, freeze, and become unresponsive 

It becomes extremely frustrating when you have to wait for the text you've typed to appear in your editor. Furthermore, during these freezes the editor does not always queue what your're typing, so you might have to wait > 15 seconds before you can continue your editing. This quickly affects the concentration of a developer, causing flow interruption and general performance degradation.
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 Framework support

PyCharm supports cefpython and electron.js (with c bindings).
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 Feature incomplete

Some features are locked behind a paywall. Although if you are a student, you can apply for the Student Pack.
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 Pro features Free for students

JetBrains offers a Student Pack, which gives you a student license and access to the pro features of selected products such as PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA and Php Storm.
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 Keyboard-based, mouse-free interface

You never have to reach for the mouse or the ctrl/alt buttons again. Everything is 1 or 2 key presses away with almost 200 functions specifically for text editing. If you insist on a GUI, versions of vim like gVim or MacVim allow you to use the mouse and familiar platform shortcuts, which can help ease the learning curve.
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 Ubiquity and portability

Vi/vim exists on almost all Unix-like platforms, it is the de-facto Unix editor, and is easily installed on Windows. All you need to make it work is a text-based connection, so it works well for remote machines with slow connections, or when you're too lazy to set up a VNC/Remote Desktop connection.
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 Excellent performance

Because it loads the whole file into RAM, replacing all string occurences in 100MB+ files is quick and easy. Every other editor sort of died during that. It is extremely fast even for cold start. Vim is light-weighted and very compact. In terminal, it uses only small amount of memory. Anytime you invoke vim, it's extremely fast. It is immediate, you can't even notice any time lag.
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 Once learned, it's very hard to forget

Its somewhat steep learning curve is more than made up for once you've mastered a few basic concepts and learned the few tricks that will allow you to program faster with fewer cut/paste mistakes.
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 Lightweight and fast

When compared to modern graphical editors like Atom and Brackets (which have underlying HTML5 engines, browsers, Node, etc.), Vim uses a sliver of the system's memory and it loads instantly, all the while delivering the same features. Vim is also faster than Emacs.
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 High effort to customize

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 Poor feature discoverability

Though basic features like syntax checking, autocompletion, and file management are all available out of the box or with minimal configuration, this is not obvious to new users, who might get intimidated or assume they need to install complex plugins just so they can have this functionality. Other features new users might expect to find embedded in Vim, such as debugging, instead follow a UNIX-style model where they are called as external programs, the output of which might then be parsed by Vim so it can display results. Users not familiar with this paradigm will likely fault Vim for lacking those features as well.
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 Amazing extensibility

Vimscript provides a rich scripting functionality to build upon the core of vim. When combined with things like Tim Pope's Pathogen plugin management system, it becomes easy to add support for syntax, debugging, build systems, git, and more.
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 Works in terminal over SSH

Unlike other editors such as Sublime Text, Vim is a command line editor and hence can be used in remote development environments such as Chromebooks via SSH.
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 Macros increase productivity

Many text editors have programmable macros, but since vim is keyboard based, your programmed macros are usually far more predictable and easier to understand.
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 Extremely portable

Vi/vim exists on almost all Unix-like platforms. It's the de-facto Unix editor and is easily installed on Windows. All you need to make it work is a text-based connection, so it works well for remote machines with slow connections, or when you're too lazy to set up a VNC/Remote Desktop connection.
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 Great productivity

Vim's keyset is mainly restricted to the alphanumeric keys and the escape key. This is an enduring relic of its teletype heritage, but has the effect of making most of Vim's functionality accessible without frequent awkward finger reaches.
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 Works on Android

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 Can never outgrow it

The fact that very few, if any, people claim to be a "Vim Master" is a testament to the breadth and depth of Vim. There is always something new to learn - a new, perhaps more efficient, way to use it. This prevents Vim from ever feeling stale. It's always fresh.
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 Tons of plugins/add-ons

This makes Vim the definitive resource for every environment (Ruby/Rails, Python, C, etc.), or simply just provides more information in your view.
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 Can set up keymapping

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 Keyboard-based, mouse-free interface, and trackpad support

There's no need to reach for the mouse or the Ctrl/Alt buttons again. Everything is a mere key press or two away with almost 200 functions specifically for text editing. Vim does support the mouse, but it's designed so you don't have to use it for greater efficiency. Versions of Vim, like gVim or MacVim, still allow you to use the mouse and familiar platform shortcuts. That can help ease the learning curve and you'll probably find you won't want to (or need to) use the mouse after a while.
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 Has multiple distinct editing modes

Interaction with Vim is centered around several "modes", where purpose and keybindings differ in each. Insert mode is for entering text. This mode most resembles traditional text entry in most editors. Normal mode (the default) is entered by hitting ESC and converts all keybindings to center around movement within the file, search, pane selection, etc. Command mode is entered by hitting ":" in Normal mode and allows you to execute Vim commands and scripts similar in fashion to a shell. Visual mode is for selecting lines, blocks, and characters of code. Those are the major modes, and several more exist depending on what one defines as a "mode" in Vim.
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 Flexible feature-set

Vim allows users to include many features found in IDEs and competing editors, but does not force them all on the user. This not only helps keep it lighter in weight than a lot of other options, but it also helps ensure that some unused features will not get in the way.
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 Has been supported for a long time and will be supported for many years to come

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 Everything is mnemonic

No need to memorize different key combinations for things like deleting the text inside of a block or deleting the text inside of a pair of quotes. It's just a series of actions, or nouns and verbs, or however, you prefer to think about it. If you want to delete, you select "d"; if you want it to happen inside something, you select "i"; and if you want the surrounding double-quotes, just select ". But if you were changing the text, or copying it, or anything else, you'd still use the same "i" and ". This makes it very easy to remember a large number of different extremely useful commands, without the effort it takes to remember all of the Emacs "magic incantations", for example.
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 Vim encourages discipline

If you use Vim long enough, it will rewire your brain to be more efficient.
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 If you can use Vim you can also use vi

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 Usable from a Terminal or with a GUI (GVim, MacVim)

If you happen to be logged into SSH, you can use Vim in a terminal. It can also run with a GUI too.
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 Avalailability of sophisticated plugins

Vimscript provides a rich scripting functionality to build upon the core of vim. When combined with things like Tim Pope's Pathogen plugin management system, it becomes easy to add support for syntax, debugging, build systems, git, and more. Vim can be made into a sophisticated IDE with just a few plugins, such as YouCompleteMe and CtrlP.
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 Vimtutor

Vimtutor is an excellent interactive tutorial for people with no prior experience in Vim. It takes about 30 minutes to complete.
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 Free and open-source software

Vim is open-source, GPL-compatible charityware.
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 Everything is a mnemonic

No need to memorize different key combinations for things like deleting the text inside of a block or deleting the text inside of a pair of quotes. It's just a series of actions, or nouns and verbs, or however you prefer to think about it. You want to delete, so you select "d", you want it to happen inside something, so "i", and you want the surrounding double-quotes, so just ". But if you were changing the text, or copying it, or anything else, you'd still use the same "i" and ". This makes it very easy to remember a large number number of different extremely useful commands, without the effort it takes to remember all of the Emacs "magic incantations", for example.
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 Steep learning curve

You'll spend a lot of time learning all the commands and modes supported. You'll then spend more time tuning settings to your needs on each machine you use it.
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 Consume brain energy for editing that should be used for logic

Text editing in vim is awesome, but it requires thinking about combination of commands. In other editors, you don't have to think about how to delete this part of code. You just think about how to implement a feature, what is a good design for this code. Even after you get used to using vim, it still requires your brain for editing.
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 Productivity enhancing modal paradigm

As with all vi-like editors, Vim provides a modal paradigm for text editing and processing that provides a rich syntax and semantic model for composing succinct, powerful commands. While this requires some initial investment in learning how it works in order to take full advantage of its capabilities, it rewards the user well in the long run. This modal interface paradigm also lends itself surprisingly well to many other types of applications that can be controlled by vi-like keybindings, such as browsers, image viewers, media players, network clients (for email and other communication media), and window managers. Even shells (including zsh, tcsh, mksh, and bash, among others) come with vi-like keybinding features that can greatly enhance user comfort and efficiency when the user is familiar with the vi modal editing paradigm.
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 Supported by Kite

Kite adds smart, ML-driven code completion to Vim. Supported on Linux, too!
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 Asynchronous I/O support

Since Vim 8, Vim can exchange characters with background processes asynchronously. This avoids the problem of the text editor getting stuck when a plugin that had to communicate with a server was running. Now plugins can send and receive data from external scripts without forcing Vim to freeze.
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 Donations and support to Vim.org helps children in Uganda through ICCF Holland

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 Built-in package management

Starting with Vim 8, a package manager has been built into Vim. The package manager helps keep track of installed plugins, their versions and also only loads the needed plugins on startup depending on the file type.
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 Unintuitive mode switching

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 Doesn't play nice with the system cut/paste mechanisms

Vim relies on certain tools and features being available to it in order to interact with the system clipboard. When using Vim over SSH, for instance, it doesn't have the ability to push a buffer to your local clipboard as it can when it's running locally. When it's compiled with GUI support, it uses an interface like the xclip/xsel or pbcopy/pbpaste tools to push a specially-named buffer to your clipboard. On X11 systems, using "+ will place your yank/delete into the selection buffer. On other systems, it behaves the same as "*, which places your yank/delete into the system clipboard. When Gvim or when using a terminal where Vim has been built with mouse support, it switches to Visual mode when you try to select with the mouse. In a terminal window, you can usually bypass this behavior by holding one of either Shift or Control, and the terminal will behave as if Vim hadn't captured the mouse input, and you will be able to use your terminal's capability for making selections, copies, and pastes. You can also disable the mouse in Vim, by adjusting the value of ":set mouse".
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 Extendable through plugins

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plugins available to extend its functionality.
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 One IDE for all languages

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 Python support

Excellent Python plugin, originally created by Don Jayamanne, now hired by Microsoft to extend and maintain the extension.
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 Integrated debugging 

VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
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 Updated frequently

There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily.
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 Great performance

For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well.
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 Integrated terminal

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor. Shift+~ is a handy hotkey to toggle the integrated terminal.
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 Embedded Git control

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.
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 Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License.
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 Extendable through plug-ins

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plug-ins available to extend its functionality.
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 TypeScript integration

There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript.
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 Embedded Git isn't powerful enough

You can do nothing but to track changes, stage them and commit. No history, visualization, rebasing or cherry-picking – these things are left to git console or external git client.
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 Errors of Python libraries not available can be a problem

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 Generalized

VS Code is a general code/scripting IDE built to be lightweight and for people familiar with their language of choice, not directly comparable to Visual Studio in power or scope.
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 Ready to use out of the box

You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered.
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 Project search limits results

Because file search is so slow your results are limited in order to simulate a faster search.
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 The autocomplete and code check is not as powerful as the one on WebStorm

Sometimes it doesn't tell you if you made a typo in a method name or if a method is not used and several other important features.
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 Light on resources

Takes up very little HDD space and RAM. Is rarely stressing the CPU.
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 Fast and responsive

Opens very fast. Stays responsive even on big files.
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 The project management tools are weak

Moving project files from one location to another breaks the project file.
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 Multi-Platform

Is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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 Very configurable

You can easily change what parts of the main window are shown/hidden. How to deal with spaces and tabs.
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 Some features are missing on other platforms

The Windows version lacks the integrated console window.
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 Very configurable

The amount if options can be a bit intimidating. Configuring can take some time.
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 Powerful autocompletion 

Spyder's autocomplete features are made possible by a library called rope which gives Spyder powerful autocompletion.
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 NumPy array editor and dictionary editor 

Variables created during the execution of a file can be explored and edited through several GUI based editors like a dictionary and NumPy array one.
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 Matlab-like interface 

Spyder can plot graphs and provide the list of all variables and a repl
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 Cross Platform

Based on QT library
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 Syntax Colouring

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 PyLint integration

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 Enables to write consistent code

Pylint integration enables to check the code for PEP8 style guide and detect errors.
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 Has cross platform support - Linux, Mac, and even Windows

Spyder (formerly Pydee) has support for all of the major operating platforms - Linux, Mac, and even Windows.
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 Intuitive interface

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 Relatively lightweight

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 Code introspection

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 Free and open-source

Released under the MIT license.
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 Graph plotting support

Spyder can plot graphs and provide the list of all variables.
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 Not beautiful

The default theme is not beautiful. And there are not many themes.
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 Good GitHub project

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 Helps you to use documentation

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 Consumes a lot of memory

If you're working with large data, especially arrays, another IDE should be considered as spyder uses at least 200-300Mb of memory.
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 The documentation is poor when it comes to debugging

Not a lot of information about debugging is available in the documentation.
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 Poor debugging docs

Not a lot of information about debugging is available in the documentation.
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 Combines the best parts of Vim and Emacs 

Spacemacs combines the Emacs platform and Vim UI in the same box.
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 Mnemonic and consistent key bindings

Key bindings are organized in mnemonic namespaces, for instance buffer actions are under b, file actions under f, project actions under p, search actions under s etc... Key bindings are consistent across the whole distribution thanks to a set of conventions.
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 Support for different languages with layers

At the heart of Spacemacs, the configuration layers group packages configuration into semantic units that can be toggled on and off. The architecture is simple but powerful allowing to easily manage configuration dependencies between hundreds of packages. Layers for other languages can be found here.
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 Cross-platform

Emacs runs on Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
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 Above average documentation quality 

Documentation is mandatory for each new configuration layers and can be accessed directly within the editor in Org format.
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 Community-driven configuration 

Spacemacs is the biggest community-driven Emacs starter-kit.
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 Customizability

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 Free/Libre/Open

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 Gradual learning curve

Evil package is a first class citizen, Spacemacs embraces it from day one. Evil package allows Vim users to be productive very quickly while still allowing regular Emacs users to use Spacemacs.
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 Great support from the community

The community is very active and there is a welcoming gitter chat to ask for questions.
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 Easy to remember keybindings

Key bindings are organized in mnemonic namespaces. For instance buffer actions are under b, file actions under f, project actions under p, search actions under s etc... Key bindings are consistent across the whole distribution thanks to a set of conventions.
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 Slow startup time

Although configuration is heavily lazy loaded, the starting time of Spacemacs is usually between two and five seconds. Emacs can be run as a daemon though which reduces the clients startup time to a few milliseconds.
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 Fast and light on memory usage

New neovim editor instance starts instantly and you can have multiple editors open at the same time, because id does not require a lot of memory to run.
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 Async plugin execution

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 Still Vim but with upgraded features and some issues fixed

NeoVim was a complete rewrite of Vim, with new features added and underlying issues resolved thanks to the Vim code base. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim, so the switch can be pretty simple.
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 Better integration with external tools

The core text editor is "headless", meaning it's detached from the user-interface so other programs can hook into it. This enables better integration with IDEs and browsers, where "Vim mode" has typically been a poor substitute because it was a partial rewrite or a partial port at best. One of the advantages of Vim has always been ubiquity and Neovim makes it even more ubiquitous.
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 Built-in terminal emulator

This avoids the user having to make any installations.
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 UI Agnostic

The core functionality is handled apart from the UI, meaning that Neovim can be embedded into any other GUI system, such as Atom.
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 Poor feature discoverability

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 Split the VIM community

Moolenaar to be blamed for. If he opened up the development for vim to other bright minds, no fork would have happened. As it is mostly compatible with vim, it is not such a big issue.
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 Ambiguity in extensive documentation

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 Requires Brain Mode Switching

When editing in vim, you have you use the vim keys; when editing in every other window on your PC, or in Word or Excel or other application, you need to use the standard system key combinations. Learning the vim combinations can actually make you SLOWER at everything else.
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 Powerful plugin model

Vim plugins have always been useful, but tied to specific languages. Neovim's architecture provides better separation between plugins and the core product, so that plugins are completely flexible and can be written in any language.
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 Modern code base

As a refactor over Vim, Neovim has greatly improved its code base. For example, some functionality is handled by libuv, the same code base that powers Node.js.
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 Active development community

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 Opens a 3Gig text file in a few seconds

Not many editors can open such a large text file so quickly.
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 Comes with some good configurations out of the box

Some typical configurations most of VIM users make are default in Neovim.
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 Work in TUI (Tex User Interface)

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh.
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 Customizable

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 No longer maintained as of 15 Dec. 2022

Not even security updates will be made and package managers won’t work either. Although it used to be a great app, it no longer can be recommended.
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 Built-in package manager and rich ecosystem

Search for and install new packages or start creating your own—all from within Atom. Also using apm install command. Great package ecosystem, including packages for linting (pylint, flake8) and connecting to remote kernels (hydrogen).
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 Works everywhere/OS agnostic

Looks the same across Windows, OS X and Linux.
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 Very ergonomic (easy access to files, command pallete)

Almost all shortcuts are the same as Sublime Text.
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 Free and open source software

THE open source alternative to Sublime Text.
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 Speed

It’s a browser-based app (runs on Electron), and is a bit slow to load and sometimes to respond.
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 Themable

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 Under the hood is a web app

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 Smart autocompletion

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 Written in Coffeescript

Most of the core is written in coffeescript, but the team at Github is transitioning to ES6 (the modern edition of Javascript).
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 Extensive list of packages

Atom has a built-in package manager and an extensive list of packages. Packages are written in CoffeeScript.
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 Great package ecosystem, including packages for linting (pylint, flake8) and connecting to remote kernels (hydrogen)

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 Good project management

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 Integrated class browser

With Eric you can easily browse all classes in your current Python project and display the methods for a given class.
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 Integration with version control software

Integrates with various VCS.
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 Integrated Python debugger

Eric has a python debugger built-in.
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 Runs over SSH either in terminal or GUI

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 With many other modes (plugins) you have project management systems and lots of other stuff for developers

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 Great documentation

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.
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 Total customizability

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect. A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).
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 flake8 for continuous checking

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 Steep learning curve

While it's better than it used to be, with most functions being possible through the menu, Emacs is still quite a bit different from your standard editor. You'll need to learn new keyboard shortcuts.
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 Free

Licensed under GNU GPL.
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 It's also an IDE

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.
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 Built in support for many version controls like GIT, Mercurial, subversion, CVS etc

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 Built in app store/package library with easy install

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 Pep8 support

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 Self documenting

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t.
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 Can fetch files via tramp mode over various protocols like ftp and ssh

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 Easy debugging of python code

You can use pdb inside emacs to easily debug Python code through the M-x pdb command.
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 Built-in debugging

GUI, web and embedded debugging.
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 Cross-platform

Runs on Windows, OSX and Linux.
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 High entry price

Price is starting from $39 per user for the most basic configuration.
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 Plugins can be unstable

Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources.
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 Just a plugin for python, not full editor

It's useful only if you use python as an additional (secondary) language in your project on Eclipse.
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 UI can be confusing

There's an overly abundant presence of menus, this forces you to constantly click around the different menu structures.
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 One of the few that can debug Jython code

It handles both Jython and CPython.
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 Highly customizable

Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable.
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 Large selection of plugins

Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins.
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 Good font rendering

Because Eclipse is based on SWT, it uses the native font rendering and thus looks better than other IDEs on some Linux systems, where the Java font rendering is not optimal.
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 Dark Theme available

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 Integrated pip packages installer

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 Great for beginners

Easy to get started. You can step through your code in the first lesson.
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 Intuitive visual debugger

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 Lacks project management capabilities

Since it's aimed at beginners, Thonny lacks project management features.
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 Blazing fast

Sublime Text is known for being extremely fast to start & use.
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 Not technically free (unlimited free trial)

Sublime text is $70 to purchase, but does provide an unlimited free trial. However, the nag window to upgrade can be a pain.
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 Low memory requirements

Significantly lower memory requirements than alternatives like Atom, Brackets or Visual Studio Code which run in a webview (or whatever the correct terminology is), which can make a difference when working on a large project and/or when working on lots of files simultaneously.
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 Works everywhere/OS agnostic

Looks the same across Windows, OS X and Linux.
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 Very ergonomic (easy access to files, command pallete)

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 Numerous small but useful features

Autocomplete, copy file path, run current file, view whitespace on highlight, auto highlight all instances of the selected word, fast find and replace across all files -- Sublime has many such quality of life features that are all well implemented.
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 Limited "jump to declaration" functionality for dynamic languages

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 Customizable using Python

Small Python code snippets can be used to provide functions the plug-ins do not provide.
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 Rich plugin ecosystem

Better than Sublime itself is it's community that create plugins for every need.
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 Closed source

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 No active development

Sublime Text 3 is in Beta since June 2013. The latest Dev version of Sublime Text 3 was released in July 2015, and there has been no activity since.
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 Light and fast

Notepad++ is a very light program that starts almost instantly. This makes it a great text editor for users that want something that will start the second they open it.
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 Portable

You can get a portable version of N++ and put it on a flash drive or your dropbox account and have your editor, configured the way you like, at any computer that you are on.
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 Syntax highlighting for a wide variety of languages

Notepad++ has built-in support for syntax highlighting for a wide selection of programming languages.
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 Free under GPL

Notepad++ is licensed under GPL, which means it is free/open source software that you can use freely.
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 Easy to use and admin

Very easy to use and personalize.
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 User defined language syntax support

You can define your own custom syntax highlighting rules (or add support for others) .
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 Multi-line editing

While it is disabled by default, when enabled, it is possible to edit more than one line at a time. This is helpful in many situations.
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 Windows only

You can't use it cross platform.
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 Plugins Galore

It's ubiquitous, there is a plugin for just about everything (not just PYTHON). So if you need your JSON laid out and decoded whilst you are carving the code, open another tab and crank up the JSON plugin (for example). AND you can write your own. AND it's not just PYTHON. This is a very underrated (free) application.
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 Windows Only

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 Lightweight

PyScripter is a lightweight Python IDE.
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 Windows only

Available for Windows only.
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 Non-free

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 Suport for Jupyter Notebooks

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 Beautiful Interface

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 Syntax highlighting

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 Extensible

Plugins can easily be created to add features that you may need but are otherwise missing from the IDE.
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 Virtualenv support

Has out of the box support for virtualenv, which can be added when first starting a project or later through the settings.
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 Embedded Python console

Has an embedded python console built in.
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 Script runner

It is possible to run the project or any file opened in the editor with just one click.
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 Find in files / find usages

Allows you to search one or more words, a regular expression, etc.
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 Breakpoints

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 Latest version (2.3) is from 2013

But it looks like the project is still maintained towards 3.0 release.
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 Bad performance

Freezes and slows down often.
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 Multi-platform

GNU/Linux OS X Windows
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 Built-in static analysis

NInja IDE highlights both static and PEP8 errors in a file. With each type of error having its own icon.
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 Web-inspector

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 Render HTML files

Also supports rendering HTML files currently loaded in the editor.
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 Project management

Allows you to manage projects, saving descriptions and information about them and letting the user to perform file management related task inside the IDE itself.
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 Easily locate code

Code locator allows quick and direct access to any file, function or class inside one of the project by simply pressing a few keys. Pressing Ctrl + K open a popup over a text field, where you can type the name of what you want.
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 Symbols explorer built in

You can easily see all functions, classes and attributes in the current program.
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 Written in Python

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 Bash support

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 Sublime snippets

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 Multi-language support

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 Best in industry syntax highlighing

Kdevelop has very unique syntax highlighting. It's very addicting - other IDE will soon look monochrome to you.
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 Fast code completion

Kdevelop indices all your classes, methods, functions and global variables in memory, which makes class/method lookups to complete in no time.
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 Very lean on CPU and RAM

Even quite large projects occupy only several hundreds megabytes of RAM. Try that in Eclipse...
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 Only preliminary support for Windows

The Windows version is still in alpha.
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 Google Home / Google Assistant development in the browser

As PaizaCloud runs in the cloud, you can develop and run the Google Home / Google Assistant application, without deploying to another server.
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 Terminal with root

In PaizaCloud, you can sudo to root. So, you can install packages, or run service freely.
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 HTTP/HTTPS access to any ports

PaizaCloud allow you to access almost all ports for HTTP/HTTPs access.
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 Supports Jupyter notebook

PaizaCloud has Jupyter Notebook support with Python libraries like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, or matplotlib built-in.
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 Extensible PaizaCloud app

PaizaCloud provides standard application like File manager, Editor, Terminal. But, PaizaCloud also provides the possibility to add or even create new App-for-PaizaCloud using HTML/CSS.
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 No credit card required

No credit card is required for FREE plan.
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 Internationalization

PaizaCloud's Editor or Terminal fully support non-ASCII languages like Japanese, Chinese, European languages.
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 Floating window manager

PaizaCloud provides Floating window manager like Windows or Mac by default. It makes the environment more flexible. PaizaCloud also provides Tab window mode when you want to use the full screen for one purpose.
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 3 seconds instant launch

PaizaCloud launches new development environment server just in 3 seconds. So, you can casually create or destroy server.
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 Sometimes simple is best

For short scripts, a heavyweight IDE just gets in the way. It's also easier for beginners to understand.
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 Included in standard Python distributions

You probably already have it.
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 Written in pure Python/tkinter

You can dig in and change how it works.
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 Has a debugger

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 Beginner friendly

It's also easier for beginners to understand.
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 Easy to use for simple tasks

For short scripts, a heavyweight IDE just gets in the way.
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 Great python autocomplete

Great python autocomplete.
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 Has built-in FTP  

Has a built-in FTP client which allows developers to access remotely hosted files.
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 Not very lightweight   

Komodo Edit is not very lightweight and that can slow it down during startup.
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 Vim mode  

Has support for a limited Vim mode.
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