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Microsoft Wants Your Feedback On Its New Python IDE

Posted by timothy on from the is-the-embrace-part-of-the-python? dept.

First time accepted submitter phoolishcyrus writes "Dear Slashdot: would you kindly take a look at our little project, PTVS — Python Tools for Visual Studio? It helps you develop Python (using any interpreter, not just IronPython) and comes with a few other goodies. Spare no punches."

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  1. Re:Why? by Tridus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe there's people who already have Visual Studio for other work purposes and also do python stuff?

    It seems unlikely they'd make it if there was nobody using python on Windows.

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  2. MSFT guy here. will answer as many Q's by phoolishcyrus · · Score: 5, Informative

    as best I can (while running between meetings)! Thanks for all your comments & questions so far.

    Background info:

    PTVS is basically a 2 person (1 dev, 1 test) effort. Recently we had a summer intern & a new dev has joined since to work on Big Data (think dryad/hadoop/etc) which is great. We've been running "under the radar" so to speak until now. The parts that we're actually most proud of are that we convinced mgmt to let us do this as Open Source, and more importantly under Apache 2.0. The fact we can actually accept code contributions back (may be a 1st?) is huge too. Not a big deal for most, but trust me, as staunch pro OSS guys, it was a big deal & took a lot of work to accomplish...

    Thanks in advance & on to answering questions...

    PS Just updated the project page w a couple of videos to give you an overview. Excuse the cheesy production, we don't exactly have a marketing dept.

    PTVS - Core editing experience : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoGsSlrxKk
    PTVS - Profiling : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCx7rlPyEzE