[pydotorg-www] Editing permissions for IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments for AndrewJanke

[Andrew Janke]

On 5/27/18 10:25 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 05/26/2018 12:22 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:
>> Good to go. I was able to edit the page. Thanks!
>>
>> Andrew
>>
> Thanks for taking this on... someone motivated to pick a an IDE is the
> perfect candidate to update the tables.  You even inspired me to make a
> few more changes!
>
> While we're here, there are links to a number of articles that compare
> IDEs.  In this modern world, there appear to be an infinite number of
> "ten best" type articles, as, sadly, people have learned how effective
> they are as clickbait, so I'm not sure how to refresh this list, but I'm
> thinking that we should drop the older articles. The ones from 2000,
> 2005, even 2008 seem unlikely to be very applicable, as all of the
> surviving IDEs have evolved, and some (BlackAdder?) don't seem to have
> survived.  Any objections if I kill a few?  Andrew - if you found any
> useful comparsion article, please feel free to add, I'm just thinking we
> shouldn't add the dozens, maybe hundreds, of such comparisons that pop
> up if you ask a search engine.
>
> -- mats
>
That makes sense.

I have no useful comparison articles to add. I think one can smell the 
difference between original content and a "ten best" clickbait listicle, 
and all the decent original-content comparison articles I've found are 
already in this Wiki entry. (E.g. this one that you have linked is a 
really good one: 
https://xcorr.net/2013/04/17/evaluating-ides-for-scientific-python/) 
Which is kind of sad because the last comparo article is from 2013.

At any rate, I also agree with not adding all the content-farm junk that 
one finds in Google.

IMHO, as far as old links on this article go, I'd say remove the link 
that's for WingIDE specifically, but actually keep all the rest, even 
the ones as old as 2000: those are good, content-deep articles, are of 
historical interest, serve as examples of how to compare IDEs, and given 
how slowly the Python IDE ecosystem seems to be evolving, are still 
relevant. I found them all useful in my current efforts to learn about 
Python IDEs. And some of these articles don't surface in a Google search 
for "Python IDEs"; they're buried in "ten best" clickbait, so I think 
it's still useful to have them collected in a list.

Cheers,
Andrew