Atom vs. Spyder

Atom is great for simple HTML coding. It's fast, has intuitive shortcuts and several options. I particularly love the "convert spaces to tabs" function that I haven't seen in other editors.

I'm not sure how it would fair in more serious web development today, if there are plugins for live updates of the page you are working on...

But the problem is that it has been discontinued so you know there are no new features or fixes coming through.

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Spyder is an open-source Python IDE designed for the movement of data science work. Spyder comes with an Anaconda package manager distribution, so depending on your setup you may have installed it on your machine.

Spyder includes most of the "standard IDE" features you can expect, such as a strong syntax code editor, Python code rendering, and an integrated text browser.

Spyder is used when we want to develop a code that is useful and able to explore proper documentation of the code that has been written. We use Spyder to perform data-related operations like filtration, cleaning, and enhancing the data qualities. There some cases where it is less appropriate like working in an environment, creating dashboards of data visualizations and plots.

• Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.
• Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.
• It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.
• It's free!

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• Debugging of your existing code
• Generates figures very quickly as part of a figures tab which lets users understand results quickly
• Different layouts are available for the software which will give the users freedom to decide what layout works best for them

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• There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
• It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
• it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
• Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
• It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
• It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ

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• Colors in code format
• Add a broadcast to share the project with friends
• Contains more than one important language such as Python

Well Atom is open source so the re-new is a no brainer. The only way I would stop using Atom is if the developers somehow made it not function well. Or, if the project got forked to a commercial version or something. Or, there could be the case that development stops or that it was not updated on this or that platform

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I give Atom a 9 because it is one of the most modern text editors built with JavaScript intentionally to allow the editor to be changed and modified with custom functionality that a team may need. I think I would otherwise give atom an 8 due to support, but it gets a 9/10 because of the extensibility/plugin capability.

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Atom has an active forum and a Slack group where you can ask technical questions. Occasionally, the authors will pop in to answer a few questions here and there, but most of the time, its other helpful users who will assist you. Though they aren't the most knowledgeable, they are at least timely.

As for plugin support, that differs with each plugin, but as I mentioned before, many plugins are no longer maintained.

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Most of data scientists or data engineers are either using ec2 on the cloud or Atom or PyCharm locally. It is a bit hard to find people who are still using Spyder and have the sight of the IDE and can help you to answer your question.

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Just download and install

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Our company likes to keep things open, and we don't want to prevent developers from customizing their environment the way they want. Atom seemed to be a lot more open than our existing tools and has good community support on pretty much any programming language. This can create some confusion since adding too many extensions or customizing can make the tool slower than it is supposed to be.

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I think Spyder doesn't stack up as well as other IDEs due to its many limitations. But it is available for free and that is one advantage it has over its competitors

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• The tool we use when we need quick fixes. Allows fast, reliable scripting to fix urgent problems in our applications.
• When applications grow from 5-10 files to 100's, they need to be migrated to a heavier-duty IDE. This can be cumbersome and quite annoying, but is necessary to maintain code integrity on such a large scale (since it cannot be done with the limited default toolset of Atom).

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• Easy to use.
• Quick switch from R.
• Hard to manage env.

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