Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review I would recommend Vim in any scenario where text files have to be viewed, created, or edited on GNU/Linux computers. Regardless if you need to quickly change a few things in a configuration file, or you need to write up a full document, Vim is great. I wouldn't use Vim to view, edit, or create anything that requires "rich-text". In other words, if you need to format the text (bolding, font colours, word-art, etc), then Vim isn't the tool to use.
Read full review Pros 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 Read full review The efficient modal editing makes it very fast to write/edit code as I think of it. The customization and wide range of plugins let me do very specific things and automate parts of my workflow. The fact that it runs inside a terminal simplifies my window management and just becomes another Tmux window in my workflow. Read full review Cons Colors in code format Add a broadcast to share the project with friends Contains more than one important language such as Python Read full review Without a doubt the hardest program to learn. It is a completely different paradigm of thinking compared to other editors By default it doesn't have lots of fancy features you would find in larger IDE programs like code completion and linking It lives in the command line so a user has to be comfortable with this interface Read full review Usability I don't consider the steep learning curve to be a hinderance on the overall usability. I would rate this a ten, but to be honest a lot of people do get hung up at the beginning and just abandon it. However, for people who have made the moderate effort to get over the hump, nothing can be more usable.
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review There is no commercial support for Vim. Thus, it will not get a mark beyond 5. However, community support is very good. You can easily find solutions for most of the problems in the community.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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
Read full review Vim's keybindings are a lot more complex than Notepad++. With that, comes a whole bunch of capability that Notepad++ just can't match. Emacs is comparable, in terms of capabilities--because Vim is built into so many unix systems, I chose to learn it instead of Emacs. Knowing both probably isn't a bad idea, but there's enough to learn in either camp to keep you busy
Read full review Return on Investment Easy to use. Quick switch from R. Hard to manage env. Read full review It always increases productivity. Sometimes feature discovery is not easy. It could be documented well like how to install a plugin and if it supported well or not. Read full review ScreenShots