Thonny - another Python IDE for beginners
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2 Oct
2016
2 Oct
'16
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I saw this posted on Reddit: http://thonny.cs.ut.ee/
The project has been around for a while, but has just had its 2.0 release. I don't think it's been mentioned before on this list, so thought I'd share. I've CCed the author (Aivar - I hope you don't mind, I thought you might be interested in the discussion).
We've had some previous discussion on this list about Mu <https://github.com/mu-editor/mu> from Nicholas Tollervey and collaborators. Thonny seems clearly aimed at a different design point like the support for step-through expression evaluation.
- Mu heavily optimises for completely zero-friction interaction while hiding complexity for beginners. Thonny makes efforts to introduce more advanced features such as debugging in an easy to use way. I also
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