Chapter 13 Favorite integrated development environments (IDE’s)

Favorite integrated development environments (IDE’s) are shown in the graph below


The last Qualification which is cut off in the legend in the plot above reads “Some college/university study without earning a bachelor’s degree”


Below a list of some IDEs, all of them are free except for Matlab.

  • Jupyter Notebook
    • Works with Python, R, Julia, C++, Ruby
  • Visual Studio Code
    • Works with Python, R, Julia, C++, Ruby , SQL, XML, Swift, JSON, Perl, Sass…
    • Debugger
    • Variable viewer
    • Console
  • RStudio
    • Mainly for R
    • Debugger
    • Variable viewer
    • Console
  • PyCharm
    • For Python
    • Debugger
    • Variable viewer
  • Matlab
    • Very well established in industry
    • Originally for control tasks
    • Commercial tool
    • Own syntax