IDLE Alternatives for Linux

IPython is a powerful, free and open-source interactive shell used for interactive computing. It's an alternative to the Python interpreter that provides improvements over its default counterpart. These improvements include syntax highlight, proper indentation, documentation, and much more. With iPython, you can use Jupyter notebooks to create reports that contain live code, charts, and more interesting things for data science and data visualisation.

PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed and developed by JetBrains specifically for the programming language Python. With PyCharm you can boost code quality and write maintainable code while maintain standards with PEP8 checks, testing assistance and smart refactoring. PyCharm also provides thorough intellisense with smart code completion, code inspection and real-time error highlighting. PyCharm is released as a commercial software but can be obtained for free as PyCharm Community Edition with a minimal limited feature set that close resembles the commercial version.

Eclipse IDE is a leading open platform for professional developers. With the Eclipse IDE you can write applications in your favorite programming language with confidence.

Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor designed for dynamic programming languages, inclduing PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML5, CSS and more. With Komodo Edit you can enjoy a development process supported by syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and excellent auto-complete and code intellisense. Komodo Edit is developed and released as open source software by ActiveState, in an effort to provide an more accessible version of their commercial software Komodo IDE.

A free and open source IDE based on Electron and Atom, developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code or VS Code is an extensible IDE or coding editor that is loved by many developers around the globe. The editor combines a streamlined UI with advanced code assistance, code nagivation and intellisense.

A loved text editor and IDE for web developers and designers that provides unmatched responsiveness. Sublime Text provides a wide selection of editing command including indenting or un-indenting, paragraph reformatting, line joining , multiple selections, regular expression search and replace, incremental find as you type, and preserve case on replace. The IDE can also be extended with community built packages to further improve language detection, auto-complete and intellisense features.

Android Studio is a Android development environment developed by Google. The platform is based on IntelliJ IDEA and provides integrated Android development tools used for creating, testing and debugging Android applications. Android Studio studio was created to provide a standard alternatives to the likes of Eclipse with Android Development Tools for Eclipse and other third-party providers.

gedit is a free and open source IDE native to the GNOME desktop environment. With gedit you can work with a wide range of programming languages including C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Python and Perl. The IDE automatically detect programming language and provide code color highlighting accordingly. It also include features like search and replace, spell checking, printing and support for most filte types.

A free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK with basic IDE features. Geany is designed and developed with performance in mind, and provides limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. Geany is available for a wide variety of operating systems including BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows.

GNOME Builder is an integrated development environment for the GNOME desktop environment. The IDE is built from the ground up to aid developers in building GNOME-base applications. GNOME Builder supports a vareity of programming languages including C/C++, Python, Rust, and Vala, as well as ctags integration for unsupported languages. The IDE provides functionallity for searching for files, classes, and functions with lightning fast fuzzy search, source code maps, side-by-side tiling, git intigration, application profiling using Sysprof, inline documentation and much more.