Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#1

Post by mmariani » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
ninja-ide.org

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#2

Post by gfosco » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:10 PM UTC

As soon as I see the words "cross-platform" on an IDE, I'm no longer interested. Looks really nice though, they did a good job with branding.

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#3

Post by kghose » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:17 PM UTC

It is FOSS (GPLv3). The license information was a wee bit hard to find (Wayyy down on the about page http://ninja-ide.org/about/) and I first thought it was some frankenstein freemuim product where you had to apply for a free license if you were an OSS devel (like PyCharm) etc. etc.

I gave it a whirl:

1. Snappy, which is nice, since PyCharm can be sluggish on my Mac 2. No VCS integration 3. By default very strict code checking is turned on, which turns my (functional) code into a sea of underlines, which is not so pretty

It looks to be an interesting start, but it will need VCS integration before it looks suitable as a PyCharm replacement.

I didn't look in detail at code completion/code assist, which PyCharm does very well.

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#4

Post by ninetax » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:19 PM UTC

It would be great to see some screen shots.

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#5

Post by indiecore » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:21 PM UTC

Nice, it would be good to have some screenshots and stuff though, I'll definitely check it out.

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#6

Post by unohoo » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:22 PM UTC

What would really help is a small demo video just to get a whiff of what the IDE feels like. The description and screenshots are somehow not enough for me to download and install an entire IDE and take a test drive. If there is a demo video somewhere, my apologies - I was not able to find it.

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#7

Post by mjs7231 » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:23 PM UTC

gfosco wrote: post #2

As soon as I see the words "cross-platform" on an IDE, I'm no longer interested. Looks really nice though, they did a good job with branding.

This is a very strange reason not to like a product. Care to elaborate why?

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#8

Post by rxc178 » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:23 PM UTC

This is nice, but one quick question, why's the windows installer in spanish?

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#9

Post by buster » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:24 PM UTC

Wow.. how did this not make it to HN before? Already version 2.1.1 and never heard of it?

Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

#10

Post by recuter » Tue, Nov 27, 2012, 6:24 PM UTC

Something something second system syndrome, just use vim/emacs/sublime. 'etc.