When comparing Wing Python IDE vs Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin, the Slant community recommends Wing Python IDE for most people. In the question“What are the best free IDEs for Python?” Wing Python IDE is ranked 11th while Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Wing Python IDE is:
Wing IDE provides local and remote debugging.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Built-in debugger
Wing IDE provides local and remote debugging.
Pro Checks for errors in the source code
Pylint has a static analysis tool integrated which checks the source code for any potential errors and bugs.
Pro Exceptionally responsive support
Pro Totally worth the price -- it's a steal, in fact
Pro Advanced debugging features (multi-process, remote, recursive)
Pro Totally programmable keystroke shortcuts
Pro Debugging in threads
Pro Customizable plug-ins if desired
Pro VI and Emacs editor modes
Pro Super-flexible macro capabilities
Pro Best in industry syntax highlighing
Kdevelop has very unique syntax highlighting. It's very addicting - other IDE will soon look monochrome to you.
Pro 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.
Pro Very lean on CPU and RAM
Even quite large projects occupy only several hundreds megabytes of RAM. Try that in Eclipse...
Cons
Con Little support for other languages
If you want to develop JavaScript or TypeScript or use other front-end technologies, support for non-Python languages is minimal.
Con Only preliminary support for Windows
The Windows version is still in alpha.
