I really like geany http://www.geany.org/ it's a very lightweight ide for anything with a clean, ituitive user interface. I've used it for my python and c projects.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mac Ryan <quasipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't particularly like Eclipse... seems pretty bloated especially > > > for Python. For a Java developer I'm sure it's great but I don't > > > get a happy feeling when I start it up, and for us game programmers > > > it's all about the happy. > > It is bloated, yet - after having tried a lot of various IDE's - I > still think it's the best free (as in freedom) choice if you care for > debugging, git integration, plugins for other syntax (yaml, json...), > etc... True: it takes 20 seconds to fire up, but then [at least for me] > it's open the best part of the day and it's snappy enough even on my 5 > years old laptop. > > > > Is anybody particularly enthusiastic about their IDE? Anybody use a > > > black-on-white or similar color scheme? > > I recently tried Ninja (http://ninja-ide.org/) it's specifically > designed for python, light, and supports color schemes. Current stable > version is 1.1 with version 2.0beta coming out 23/9. Personally I found > it still too rudimental to win over gedit with the appropriate plugins, > but nevertheless I liked the approach the devs have chosen, and look > forward to see what version 2.0 will bring up. > > /mac >