Likelihood to Recommend Enthought Canopy is best suites for scripting data analytical concepts. It has a wide range of data analytical libraries and also is good for data visualization. I would not recommend using Enthought Canopy only as an IDE, there may be better options available. If you're looking for a good data simulation & visualization package, Canopy it is.
Read full review NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in
Eclipse . It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools.
Read full review Pros Providing scientific libraries, both open source and Enthought's own libraries which are excellent. Training. They provide several courses in python for general use and for data analysis. Debugging tools. Several IDEs provides tools for debugging, but I think they are insufficient or too general. Canopy has a special debugging tool, specially design for python. Read full review Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem. Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools. Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish. Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools. Read full review Cons Canopy does not support Python 3 There were times the Python shell crashed, and I would have to restart it Some Python libraries are slow. Read full review NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans. File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files. Read full review Usability Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code.
Read full review Support Rating NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Before Canopy with its python we were working with Matlab. We decided for Canopy against Matlab for two reasons: First, we believe that python together with NumPy or SciPy can achieve the objectives with less code and therefore less training, and second the prizes are much lower than matlab which is most robust, expensive and less intuitive. It's clear we are making the comparison with python and it has nothing to with canopy. But with Canopy you feel you have all those tools close together without the problem of configuration, besides a lot of personalized libraries that complements a typical python environment.
Read full review It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE with google chrome browser
Read full review Return on Investment Its easier to define KPI's with Enthought It is good for reiteration and building on top of existing scripts Its dedicated Python console makes it easier to execute projects. Read full review By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work. Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this. Read full review ScreenShots