Hi all of you VFP long-time users,

The thread title says it all: I am in the process of building a new workstation-centric data processing application in python. Everything works ok for we know what we want to deliver as well as the base python libs we are going to use (duckdb, numpy and QT).

Off course current workstation-based applications are always big in scope. And that's where it's getting tougher as we expect to produce a large volume of code. Of course I'd like to be as productive in python as I have been in VFP during the last 30 years. Hence I am looking for a python IDE where I could replicate part of what made the VFP dev-experience so great: I mean a fast interpreter-based interactive development-and-testing loop.

Well that means I'd like us to be able able work from a environment, and IDE, where we can handle code-based objects from an interpreter whilst having access to a fine-and-fast python IDE with comfy debugging and, of course, more.

At the current juncture, I am still running a very plain POC from the old-and-tested tkinter-based python historical IDE. It offers some nice features. But sure it is years behind vfp9. And over 20 years behind recent IDEs, open-source and MS-based ones.

In my dreams, the perfect fit would be an IDE where the application we will develop could be reasonably usable as a UI-less tool from a python IDE. And have the UI development kept completely separated, both in terms of building and delivery.

Should you have have moved your stuff to python, ruby, julia or any other tools that works this way, I look forward to your views on this issue of "interpreter-centric dev".

Any feedback welcome!

Daniel