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Spyder old fashion but useful tool
March 03, 2020

Spyder old fashion but useful tool

Xiaotong Song | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Spyder

We use Spyder via anaconda in our organization. It is a decent python IDE that gives you a very similar feeling when an R user just transferred from R to python. The IDE allows users to run code line by line and make the debugging work much easier than doing it directly.
  • Free
  • Line by line debugging
  • Similar to Rstudio
  • Old interface
  • Not easy to change ENV
  • Only work with python
  • Cost efficient
  • Easy debugging
  • Old fashion interface
For PyCharm, if you choose the professional edition, you will have to pay an annual fee for it. Even your company is allowing those expenses. You might find it is still not worth it to pay for that since you can get a free community version for free or the Spyder for free.
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.

Do you think Spyder delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Spyder's feature set?

Yes

Did Spyder live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Spyder go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Spyder again?

Yes

Docker, Atom, PyCharm
Spyder is suitable for a company that either does not have a considerable budget or does not want to spend on the tools that cost a crazy amount of money. In the meantime, have a group of real data scientists/data engineers to perform the data science analytic work.