Having very recently switched to Sublime Text 2 (from Komodo Edit), I'm curious if this offers anything that can't be done with Sublime + mature existing plugins...?
Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
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Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
#22As 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?
Oh, the old saying "Write once, run crappily everywhere." See the other comments already talking about it crashing or having weird behavior. It's something I've come to after many years of trying cross-platform apps that involve a GUI... They are almost all terrible.
I hope the group who agrees with me is cancelling out all the down-votes I got for expressing a valid & common opinion. :)
Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
#23As 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?
In this case, it runs using X11 on OSX, which is a terrible way of making software ;)
Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
#24whats wrong with emacs ?
Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
#25As 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?
There's no such thing as a cross-platform GUI layer that doesn't suck.
Qt comes the closest, and it has all sorts of platform-specific hacks in it, some even visible at the API level.
If you're going to be writing something that's used as frequently and intensively as an IDE, then it had BETTER conform to the user interface guidelines of whatever OS it's running on. Those differ on Windows or Mac, and Linux doesn't really have any.
Re: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists
#26As 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?
I can't speak for gfosco, but my guess would be that it's because in IDE-land "cross-platform" frequently means "written in Java" (as with Eclipse, NetBeans, etc.), with all the performance issues and not-quite-perfect platform look and feel that implies.
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#27As others have already mentioned, PEP8 validation is enable by default, which is a little excessive in my opinion (specially with the line All in all it looks very nice, thanks for sharing.
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#29I'll definitely give it a shot. From a usability perspective, your download button could be better. It doesn't download right away (which is fine), but redirects to downloads/win for me. Might be nice to have it auto-scroll to the win downloads since it took me a while to figure out what was going on. Here's a screenshot from Win7 32-bit: http://i.imgur.com/2RT6u.png That random pink line makes it unusable for me.
It looks like that delimits an 80 char width.
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#30Can someone explain to me why this is at the top of the front page despite a website devoid of useful detail, while this completely fails to catch on: http://scummos.blogspot.de/2012/11/kdev-python-14-stable-rel...
(Seriously, check it out - KDevelop's Python plugin and Microsoft's PTVS are currently the two projects doing serious work on static analysis of Python for live editing purposes. Here's a nice subthread comparing the two: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725634)