What’s an free bare bones IDE for Python that works smoothly out of the box?

1. Visual Studio Code

   1 3,101 168,867 10.0 TypeScript

   Visual Studio Code

   

   The funny part is that you do not share the first page of the official website: "Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere."

2. CodeRabbit

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3. Geany

   2 93 3,218 9.5 C

   A fast and lightweight IDE

   

   When I installed my IDE I just wanted something lightweight, so I went with Geany. I've been using it for years without trouble.

4. vscodium

   3 556 26,627 9.4 Shell

   binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

   

   vscodium > Visual Studio Code

5. thonny

   4 178 3,311 9.4 Python

   Python IDE for beginners

   

   VSCode is good but I wouldn't describe it as "barebones". I recommend Thonny. It's a Python IDE specifically for beginners.

6. lapce

   5 181 35,036 9.4 Rust

   Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

   

7. upm

   6 715 1,071 8.3 Go

   ⠕ Universal Package Manager - Python, Node.js, Ruby, Emacs Lisp.

   

   PyCharm is a great product but definitely 100% not bare bones. Use that later on so you don't get bogged down in configuration. Even simpler is repl.it, that way you can just focus on the code. Just a web app but over team work your way over to vscode which is by far the standard these days.

8. YouCompleteMe

   7 70 25,577 7.0 Python

   A code-completion engine for Vim

   

   YouCompleteMe. A pretty good autocompletion plugin, though vim does have its own, somewhat useful built-in auto completion that requires more keystrokes

9. SaaSHub

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10. vim-awesome

    8 57 2,043 0.0 Python

    Awesome Vim plugins from across the universe

    

    Vim Awesome. This is probs the best resource for text editor related plugins for vim. Browse around the site and see what looks like it would work for you. Fugitive, NerdTree, Syntastic, and surround are pretty great for utility.

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