[Chicago] IDEs

[Josh Cronemeyer]

Woah,

hold everything.  eclim sounds awesome.  i'm downloading it right now and
keeping my fingers crossed that it isn't the most buggy nightmarish
frankenstein of all time.  If it works as advertised this could be very
cool.

thanks!

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:

> Garrett Smith wrote:
>
>> ----- "Brian Ray" <bray at sent.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Allan Spale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> +1 for Eclipse (desktop editing)
>>>> +1 for Emacs (remote editing)
>>>>
>>>> I would be curious to know if there is a nice open source GUI  builder
>>>> for Python (regardless of widget toolkit) that is not buggy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Eclipse integration would be very nice.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am not sure if you looked it wxPython at all. But it also has some GUI
>>> builders that generate code or uses mozilla-ish xml to dynamically  build
>>> gui. I used wxWidgets for some commercial products so it really is not buggy
>>> if you know what your doing; however, it was the C++  interface. Moving to
>>> the Python wx from there made life really easy.
>>> If I would have gone straight to wxPython I think I would have gotten
>>>  extremely frustrated (as many do) because the API does not really read
>>> that easily.  QT is also really nice.
>>>
>>> Concerning IDE's
>>>
>>> +1 Komodo
>>> +1 VIM
>>>
>>> I also tried Netbeans Python Beta recently which did a really good job
>>> at some stuff; although, I unsure about how well the debugger works.  I
>>> just did not have enough time to play around with it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I do a lot of work on headless servers (no GUI), so I'm pretty much
>> limited to either Emacs or VIM, or develop on the desktop and move JAR
>> files around the network (pain) in to use Eclipse (which, IMO, has
>> become an outstanding IDE over the years).
>>
>> I've been using VIM, but Emacs is the clear editor of choice for Erlang
>> development, which I'm doing more of. And since Emacs has pretty deep
>> support for everything else, I'm gonna make the switch.
>>
>> We'll see how the Java stuff goes. As far as Python, the basic
>> python-mode is already an improvement over what I was using in VIM.
>>
>>
>
> You might want to check out eclim too.  It connects/integrates Vim to a
> headless Eclipse ( or headed, or embedded editor )
> and get the same sort of Java autocomplete and refactoring stuff via
> regular Vim stuff (like ctrl-n ).
>
> I think it's pretty flexible, so it might be able to harness PyDev and
> other Eclipse plugins as well.
>
> http://eclim.sourceforge.net/
>
> -Steve
>
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