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Add to SafariWhen comparing Komodo Edit vs Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin, the Slant community recommends Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin for most people. In the question“What are the best free IDEs for Python?” Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin is ranked 21st while Komodo Edit is ranked 25th. The most important reason people chose Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin is:
Kdevelop has very unique syntax highlighting. It's very addicting - other IDE will soon look monochrome to you.
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Pros
Pro Has built-in FTP
Komodo Edit has a built-in FTP client which allows developers to access remotely hosted files.
Pro Free and open-source
Komodo Edit is the free and open-source counterpart of Komodo IDE.
Pro Vim support
Komodo Edit has support for a limited Vim mode.
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 Not very lightweight
Komodo Edit is not very lightweight and that can slow it down during startup.
Con Adds project files to project code
Con Only preliminary support for Windows
The Windows version is still in alpha.
