
[EN] ByteSized RSE: Integrated Development Environments
About this episode
The 6th instalment of ByteSized is about IDEs. They are mostly taken for granted these days. Hence, it might be easy to forget how much effort and time they saved when they were introduced.
After a brief history and talking about some popular IDEs, I'll be talking to Joaquin Dominguez from the US about how he uses IDEs, which ones and why. He also pointed out a relatively new one called zed (Mac only for now).
Here a links to some editors etc.:
- https://code.visualstudio.com Visual Studio Code by Microsoft - also used in the interactive ByteSized RSE sessions
- https://github.com/microsoft/vscode VSCode GitHub
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--_EOzdTHk example of how to set up VSCode for Python
- https://analyticsindiamag.com/is-microsofts-vs-code-really-open-source/ is VSCode open source?
- https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ PyCharm - there is a free Community edition
- https://neovim.io Neovim - a Vim based IDE
- https://www.pydev.org PyDev as part of the Eclipse IDE
- https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder Spyder
- https://zed.dev - seems a new kid on the block (beta version), for now it's Mac only
Some older stuff
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html - good ol' Emacs
- https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy Python for Emacs
Byte-sized RSE is presented in collaboration with the UNIVERSE-HPC project.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/rse/events/byte-sized-rse/
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