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Houyamne

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2023

Perfect IDE for writting simple and complex codes

It helps us to build simple and complex codes without any problems and freely.

PROS

I prefer Wing Python over many others because it supports both simple and complex codes in nature. It's a target-driven IDE which means "it's goal-oriented and performs only specific tasks".I don't trust multi or can-do-all-by-themselves coding software as they are never perfect in anything.Wing Python IDE enables us to write Python minified codes without hassles. It's code-centric and serves its purpose perfectly.We do not really use it for debugging, however, we use it to conduct simple verification across our projects and sometimes for testing (where necessary).It automatically indents my lines of code and shows proof of its smart and collaborative nature and it's also beginner friendly.

CONS

To my knowledge, There is no feature that needs improvement for now.

Reasons for switching to Wing Python IDE

Not flexible, I have to always switch between tabs and either the theme is too light or dark. I don't even enjoy the overall coding experience.

Vendor Response

Thanks for taking the time to review Wing Pro! It's good to hear you are finding it helpful. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Replied July 2023

Maha

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

Wing Python IDE: A Much Intelligent IDE than Existing Solutions

Great experience that makes developing in Python with its plethora of libraries very rapid and integrated. I would definitely prefer it over PyCharm in many different development domains even in the field on socket and client/server programming.

PROS

I have switched to Wing Python IDE after using PyCharm for several years. It seems that this IDE is so well designed to make the development much easier with code autocompletion and a very elegant debugger. Python has a lot of libraries in many different domains. I used it for developing home automation software, scientific computing, AI and ML model development and training, in addition to designing client/server solution. What makes Wing great is that once you import the needed libraries, code auto completion becomes so graceful and make the development very efficient and rapid. It is very fancy in terms of hierarchically presenting the code layers which makes debugging and even team work much more productive. One of the best IDEs for Python with a trial version and a cost effective pro version.

CONS

Definitely would have been happier to have a free version for the pro features. But this is totally justified considering the amazing code development features available in Wing. Some crashes and hangs are experienced from time to time but not a big deal considering the intelligent code editor, debugger, and unit testing features

Reasons for switching to Wing Python IDE

Intelligent editor with better code completion. Faster debugging and unit testing.

Vendor Response

Thanks very much for this review! Please don't hesitate to contact us at support@wingware.com, or by submitting a bug report from Wing's Help menu, if you run into problems like hanging. We might be able to solve those for you. Also thanks for your purchase of Wing Pro! Without those sales, Wing would not exist at all.

Replied August 2023

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Abdelrahman

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2022

Python IDE

PROS

It displays errors in a very efficient manner with an autocomplete feature which saves a lot of developer's time and effort. the company is focused to keep this app updated with new features and handling any old issues.

CONS

I didn't face so much problems using this ide exept the dark theme. and it's very expensive to renew the subscribtion after the end of the first trial.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review. There are multiple dark themes available on the first preferences page, so perhaps one of the others would solve whatever problem you ran into.

Replied September 2022

Maaz

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2021

Wing Python IDE

I like WingPython IDE due to its powerful error debugger and easy navigation through code.

PROS

Wing Python IDE is a lightweight, easy to use development software hosting powerful code editor, along with code testing capability and built-in error debugging. Its customized keystrokes shortcuts along with with its highly flexible macros further increases its accessibility.

CONS

Thoghu Wing Python IDE is a powerful developer yet it offers a very minimal support to languages that aren't python based which makes prevents it from wide use.

Reasons for switching to Wing Python IDE

Because it Wing Python IDE is lightweight and works competitively fast on usual laptops.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! It is true that Wing specializes on Python and thus is often used together with other tools by developers that also work with non-Python languages.

Replied December 2021

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Ram

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

Great all-around Python IDE and debugger

I've been using Wing IDE as my main development environment for 10 years now. I'm a big fan of Wing. I've used it for my open-source projects, my client projects when I was working as a freelancer, and now I use it at my work in a corporate environment. I do Python programming almost exclusively, so its Python-centric approach is a good fit for me. The debugger is first-class. It works on multi-process, multi-thread programs. You have your breakpoints, watches, step commands and everything you can expect from a modern debugger. Remote debugging is supported, which is especially crucial in a corporate environment, where you're debugging code that runs on different machines. They've recently added advanced features like recursive debugging, which helped me do some deep troubleshooting at my job. The editor is great. It's got VI and eMacs mode and it's extensible with scripts. It has lots of useful tools (like showing documentation, refactoring, diffing, Python shell, etc.) which I spread across 2 big monitors. The support staff is great. I've made many suggestions and requests for improvement to them over the years and they've implemented many of them. Bugs are fixed quickly. Overall, I highly recommend Wing IDE!

PROS

- First-class debugger - Great, extensible editor - Cross-compatible with Windows / Linux / Mac - Responsive email support - Extensive set of tools

CONS

- I can't get it to fill out my taxes :)

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Alessandro

Verified reviewer

Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

It's something worth with

I work with wingide (pro) since 5 years. I did try to change it with some other ide totally free... but no one gives to me same level of productivity.

PROS

Debugger. I work with zope/plone enviroments and the ability do place simple brackpoints directly on a code line without import any pdb and without restart the process is, IMHO, what's worth of it. It is written in python so is really efficient in running python code against other editors written in java o c#

CONS

Editor is a little bit old. Others IDE add graphic facilities that make them really cool. WingIDE lack of coolness but. Some recent meta languages haven't their syntaxt hilight (for eample. react jsx)

Vendor Response

Thanks for posting this review! Wing 7 add some things that might help with the coolness factor, including callouts for better indicating results in search, find uses, etc and ability to press Shift-Space to overall all the values of symbols in the editor. If you have other specific things you'ld like to see, please let us know. You're right there's no jsx support yet. I found mapping that to Javascript in the Files > File Types > Extra File Types preference is better than nothing, though.

Replied March 2019

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Douglas W.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

My Indispensable Tool for Python Development (every day)

Using Wing IDE has increased my productivity. The debugger especially has reduced time spent fixing bugs. Writing Python code has become more FUN.

PROS

From the beginning I found the product had wonderful usability. Wing has tons of features and it takes time to learn to take advantage of them. From day 1, I found my development more comfortable. I developed a large web application based on python CGI scripts. I found certain features, like the remote debugging, to be a thrill. After using Wing for a very short time, I upgraded to the Pro version, which I have now been using almost a decade. The support from Wingware is outstanding. They really care about what the users are experiencing and they address problems promptly. Their IDE product is about two decades old. That takes a lot of commitment. The program is always scurrying around providing valuable information. Right clicking or hovering provides fast access to valuable features.

CONS

That's a tough one. I am at a loss to think of anything, honestly.

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Mitchell

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

Spectacular

I have used Wing for so many years I can't even remember when I started. It is a joy to use. The features just keep coming year after year. Customer support is ridiculously responsive and on target, with responses immediately disseminated to all users. The Wing guys have extraordinarily deep understanding of Python, frameworks, platforms, debugging, and user needs, and a great imagination for features and capabilities.

PROS

huge feature set, integrated support for many frameworks, external & network debugging, tremendous cross-platform support and choice of keyboard "personality", wonderfully customizable, highly flexible arrangement of windows/tabs/tools, powerful editing and debugging facilities

CONS

There is nothing whatsoever that I dislike about this software.

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Anthony

Verified reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

Best Python IDE

We are an specialized engineering company that writes desktop applications for engineers to perform process simulation and related data analysis. We have been using WingIDE Professional for the past decade with a small team of developers. We could not be happier with the product and the support!

PROS

The debugger and code navigation tools are some of the best features in WingIDE. It is very easy to trace problems through complicated code. It is easy to jump to areas of code that you need to find. The editor is theme-able and so many of our team work in "dark mode" -- but not everyone. The support is also great -- issues get responded to quickly and fixes pushed within days.

CONS

We do not have any complaints about WingIDE.

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Constantin

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2023

Python_Review

PROS

This software is a wonderful. Very practical while developing. A large number of widgets and modules available that help to easily complete one's task.

CONS

It will be good if the developers find a solution to enable a direct compilation of python codes into APK.

John

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

Why Wing

I have used Wing for many years. When I started programming in python I needed something better than the editor provided by python. I wanted an IDE that provided an integrated debugger, warned me when I had syntax errors, corrected my spacing and was cross platform (windows and Linux was required). Wing was the only IDE that I thought met those needs and was available at the time. That tells you how I got started with Wing but it does not tell you why I continue to use Wing after all these years. Today there are lots of python editors that could meet my needs - my needs haven't changed much. And yes, I have used many of them. But I have always returned to Wing. I have used PyCharm, Atom, Sublime, Eric, SPE, and Vim to name a few. They all have their strengths and their weak points. In fact I enjoyed using Atom a lot. But I still returned to Wing. I think the real reason wasn't because I was used to Wing (you know it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks) but because of the flexibility of Wing to meet the ever changing Python landscape. I started out using wxPython then Django and soon after Flask. Wing was right there for me allowing special setups providing an easy way to integrate those technologies into my everyday programming requirements. When I reported a bug it was dealt with almost within a day. Yes that right - one day. The only other editor that responsive has been Atom - but they took at much as a week to fix items.

PROS

Wing debugging has always but one of it's best features. I have never found a better one. PyCharm's debugger was good too and it did a little more but then again in the end I didn't need the extra info PyCharm provided.

CONS

Negatives are not really there - all the python editors have some issue but I found Wing to meet my needs even if I find a bug every once an while. I have the same to be true with all the other editors.

Anonymous

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

I'm a fan of Wingide and I'm happy to admit it.

I have been using Wingide pro for a long time - I believe I started with version 1 or 2 and for the past 10 years have been using it every day for python development at my work supporting a GUI application that allows calibration and diagnostics of a distance measurement system. The current version of the application has been in development for 5 years, uses a range of classic python packages including numpy matplotlib and wxpython and has grown to include a large number of python modules. However, Wingide has been able to handle everything I have been able to through at it with out any problems. I also use Visual Studio of a fairly regular basis fro c++ development and think that Wingide is every bit as good and in someways better than Visual Studio . If you are in the market for a professional level python IDE you really owe it to yourself to, at least, try Wingide.

PROS

Things I really appreciate about wingide (pro): The publisher 's have a civilized pricing and licensing approach. The developers behind the product are very attentive to user feedback - they respond quickly and with clear reasonable answers concerning problems. When I have reported issues I have typically got a decent response on the same day. Unlike the case for some IDEs (I'm looking at you eclipse) creating and managing a project in Wingide is not a pain. Easy to debug into running python projects. The debugging ability in wingide is excellent . The debug console tab is very handy for example - hit a break point change the current context and then continue. Happiness. Easy navigation around a project with things like the go to definition feature or find points of use feature Runs on multiple operating systems - I did not have to learn a new tools when I moved over to developing on Linux. Good documentation.

CONS

Honestly nothing really has upset me about this software - I normally try to use free, opensource products but I am happy to pay for Wingide and have encouraged a number of my colleagues to start using it and they seem happy with the product too. I'm aware that there are now a number of other decent python ides out there (thank you people - it was not so good in 1998 -1999 when I started working with python) but Wingide just works so nicely for me that I have not felt any desire "to play the field" looking at the competition.

Jeff

Airlines/Aviation, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

My Python IDE of choice after trying several

I have been using Wing IDE for over 9 year and it has never failed to allow me to allow me detect and correct any problem with the code. The ability to auto-setup projects, environments, attach to Anaconda environments, notebooks etc is first rate. As for support there is none better in the software world that I have experienced. Literally minutes after I post a problem (during normal working hours - it might take a couple hours otherwise) there is a response with a suggestion, solution or acknowledgement of an issue. It is really unbelievable support.

PROS

I have the professional version which provides the Debug Probe tool. This tool is excellent as it allows you to inspect and change variable values, execute code etc at the stack level that you are at or move to. This is far more sophisticated that most other IDE's ability to change a variable value. The ability to "attach" the debugger to executing Python code that was started outside the debugger is another great feature when you are trying to see the code execute in its actual environment.

CONS

Until recently I did not like the fact that is did not alert the user to unknown variables, as the tool has excellent auto-completion. Wing 7 in now in pre-release and I am using it does this and several other things. This feature is very useful. Based on your code type an looping the debugger can cause a slow down. I'm not sure this is a problem isolated to Wing as I have seen the same thing when using PyCharm.

Vendor Response

Thanks for submitting this review. Python debuggers in general add overhead proportional to the number of byte codes executed, and with nested loops that can be a large number. There are some tricks to avoid this but depending on the debugger and the code and what breakpoints are present things can slow down in a seemingly disproportional manner. This occurs because most Python code actually does most of the CPU intensive work in C code in the Python internals, standard library, or other extension modules (or by Cython). So the number of byte codes executed is far lower. That said, I think there is more we can do to address this in Wing and we'll try to do that.

Replied March 2019

Anonymous

10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

Just about the best & worth every penny (Pro User)

I use Wing IDE Pro both at my work and at home - if I wasn't happiest with it of all the IDEs & Editors that I have tried (and I have tried many) then I would have shifted years ago.

PROS

The support is excellent & fast to respond. Debugging provides just about every feature you could hope for including being able to execute exploratory code anywhere in the stack trace in the case of an exception or while at a break-point - you can even remote debug on target hardware. Editor is fast and responsive with good syntax highlighting, error & warning marking and good autocomplete, (but not too in your face like some). Integration with various tool chains, (wx, qt, Vagrant, Jupyter and more) & external tools such as pylint & various version control systems are both very good. Being able to use a single licence on multiple machines is a positive blessing.

CONS

No spell checking of comments, docstrings & strings (it has been mentioned as a possible future feature). No GUI designers, (I use wxPython but designers for the others would be a nice feature as well). It would be nice to have editors for Markdown, ReStructured Text and html all with preview but might be overkill.

Anonymous

1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed January 2019

highly recommended for professional and amateur

I am WingIDE user for many years. I start to use WingIDE Pro since version 4.xx. It's super fast, the auto-complete and debugging are amazing. You can use your license on multi-computers, and it's one-time purchase. WingIDE is very easy to learn (yes, it's true, IDE has learning curve), I still like the feel when writing code on WingIDE, it feels very relaxed. I used all different IDEs, some are free and open source (Eric, Eclipse, Atom) some are commercial (Komodo, WingIDE, PyCharm, IntelliJ). I always feel WingIDE is the most "pythonic" one. It's hard to explain, try it for couple weeks, then you can experience it yourself. Unfortunately I had to switch to JetBrain product on 2018. It's slower (java based) and more expense (yearly subscription mode). However the main reason I have to switch to JetBrain product is not because WingIDE is not good, it's due to the workflow change, I have to work with multi-languages on same project. (mixing of Python, Ruby and Golang) and I did not switch to PyCharm, I switch to IntelliJ. So, it's not really "apple to apple"

PROS

Very Fast Easy to use Good debugger WingIDE Pro has better price than PyCharm Pro.

CONS

Some feature missing or behind PyCharm Not many plugins available Smaller community than PyCharm

ed

Computer Hardware, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2020

A solid product that will strengthen your efforts

several years with wing-101 and now wing-pro.

PROS

I just wanted to say I’m thrilled and dazzled by your Wing Pro IDE which I recently purchased. It has really helped in debugging our systems by helping us make our test analysis scripts more robust and easy to modify. I am a relative newbie at python and have barely scratched the surface of your tool, but it has a very satisfying “heft” and has handled analyzing giant trace files with nary a complaint. It gives excellent feedback when I wander off track and make a silly syntax error. It also gives great feedback when you use breakpoints to see what the code is actually doing. Please keep up the good work.

CONS

Features seem good to me; maybe detachable/expandable windows for viewing the output of long print jobs; add a beginner tutorial that covers a range of intro topics

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! You can drag tools out of the main window by their tabs, which maybe will address what you're looking for to deal with output of long print jobs. Also, there is a tutorial in the Help menu, although it does focus on IDE functionality and not teaching about Python in general. Thanks again!

Replied August 2020

Thomas

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2019

A great IDE

I use Wing every day as part of my job as a Software Engineer. My experience is generally very positive. It is the best IDE I've tried.

PROS

Wing has an excellent debugger, with great code inspection and autocomplete. The ability to work on remote projects is great too. Customer support is amazing. You can often expect an email response from the dev team within minutes of filing a bug report.

CONS

Some features are lacking compared to editors with plugin support, and the small development team means new features are often slow to arrive.

Vendor Response

Thanks for submitting this review. Just to clarify, we do have plugin support and you can write extensions for Wing in Python and even develop and debug them in Wing. However, you're right that there are not a lot that people have shared. The more ambitious extension efforts I'm aware of are specific to the customer's development process or products. Those things that have been contributed though us are stored here: https://bitbucket.org/sdeibel/wing-contrib/src

Replied March 2019

Gioacchino

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2023

Ottimo IDE Python

Durante i miei studi universitari mi è capitato di utilizzare Wing Phyton IDE per un mio progetto e, alla fin dei conti, la mia esperienza è stata positiva.Essendo esperiente in materia, ho visto l'enorme potenzialità che questo prodotto ha da offrire ma riconosco che per i meno esperti possa risultare caotico. Risulta un piacere programmare in quanto il debugger è sempre preciso e ti aiuta molto a capire dove stai sbagliando. Inoltre con l'autocompletamento puoi anche risparmiare tempo nel scrivere codice. Promosso.

PROS

Interfaccia utente semplice e intuitiva che rende semplice la navigazione tra i file e le funzionalità dell'IDE. Strumento di debug abbastanza potente e molto preciso per individuare errori nel codice.

CONS

Sul mio computer risulta molto pesante. Per i meno esperti può risultare confusionario all'inizio.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! Wing shouldn't feel heavy (as in sluggish) although it may initially consume a fair amount of CPU until it has finished finding and analysing Python code in your project and on the Python Path. If that persists, please contact us at support@wingware.com and we can provide instructions for diagnosing what is causing it. Also, for the less experienced we recommend going through either the Guide Start Guide or Tutorial to get an idea of the feature set. A lot of it can be ignored until needed, but it's good to get an intro to the basics and also know what is there. Thanks again!

Replied July 2023

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Wen-jet

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2019

A Python IDE that release the power of your mind

We are a company providing Natural Langugae Processing solutions, especially in Mandarin. The Stack Data and Debugging tools that can show Chinese characters correctly at some breakpoint saves us a lot of time. We really have a good time at work with such a great tool.

PROS

It's intellectual editor response and fast launch speed help me focus on the logic behind my code. Not to mention the prompt and friendly responses from Support/Sales and mailing list makes us feel like we are astronuts working in the deep space, and always having a solid support team making sure our gears are right for the mission.

CONS

I get lost in the full-functioned preference settings often.

Vendor Response

Thanks for submitting this review. We're hoping add a way to search the preferences dialog to make that easier to manage. The organization is also somewhat improved in Wing 7.

Replied March 2019

Anik

Computer & Network Security, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Light weight full featured Python IDE for developers

It creates a superb development envinronment for Python coders. I used it for software and application development purposes with lots of options and flexibility of customization.

PROS

Wing Python (WP) IDE is the most light weight software for python programming i ever used and I am impressed with the user interface and power code editing options, simple debugging capacities with testing.

CONS

It is literally overprice to use as IDE as there are some more affordable and low price or open source options in the market.

Reasons for switching to Wing Python IDE

To get better software for similar works

Awais

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2019

Easy way to coding

Overall it's a great powerful tool for Python programming which provides a full range of features.

PROS

Provided simple, clean, and minimalist interface which makes writing code easier and helps to focus on the main task which is writing code without a lot of distracting features.

CONS

Adding new packages can be tricky and the price of a pro license is on the higher side. It also doesn't support any other programming language.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! In case it helps people who read this, I think the reason this review mentions that adding packages can be tricky is that Wing doesn't currently have a package manager integration, so you need run pip or conda or whatever you're using from the command line. An integrated package manager is something we plan to add in the future.

Replied October 2019

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Reginaldo

Verified reviewer

Utilities, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2020

uso do ide

it is being very useful for the company in terms of agility, and saves time taking advantage of its functionalities including automatic filling.

PROS

is a lightweight program, with advanced editing, testing and debugging features and also provides automatic filling that speeds up development.

CONS

it is really a very valuable software for the company so far its use is great.

Reason for choosing Wing Python IDE

it offers a trial version for evaluation before purchase, in the software already purchased it offers the customization of the color and the layout of the user interface including documentation and support

Vendor Response

Thank you for reviewing Wing! It's good to hear it's working well for you.

Replied October 2020

Anonymous

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2019

A Senior Software Developer's Review of Wing

At this point, Wing is my primary IDE, which I use for everything that is more complicated than vi or textedit. I use it not just for Python, but also data files (XML, JSON...) and even C++ where I don't need a full blown C++ IDE.

PROS

The software has many great features, but they are all modularized in such a way as not impede those that don't need them. This leads to a very fast learning curve as I don't need to learn about things that I don't need on the way to things I do need. A particular feature that should get a shout out is the remote development tools. We do a lot of development on AWS and colo hosts and being able to edit directly from my laptop to those hosts is a huge time saver.

CONS

Wing has had some, though not a lot, of stability problems. Wing support has been very helpful in finding and fixing these as they occur.

abdul

Computer & Network Security, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2019

python

PROS

python is very good language and is very vast iun the future

CONS

very slow idle and no black theme and no suggestions

Vendor Response

Are you reviewing Wing Python IDE or Python and IDLE (the default IDE that comes with Python)? Wing does have a dark mode, which you can turn on from the menu icon in top right of the window and configure from the first preferences page. Also, Wing does have auto-completion. If you tried Wing 101 then those are turned off by default because that edition of the IDE is designed for teaching beginning Python programmers and the people we designed it with felt it would often be best to disable it initially. It can be turned on in preferences. If you are using Wing and it's slow please submit a bug report from the Help menu so we can look at why that is the case. Thanks!

Replied June 2019

Abhinav

Telecommunications, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Best Python IDE

PROS

The debugger, refactoring, auto code completion, documentation , recommendations etc are the best features for developers to build faster applications.Theme selection is great, even support is awesome, they respond very quickly.

CONS

More themes can be included as other IDE supports. The GUI can be updated with better experience as it looks a little outdated as compared to the current market.

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