Computer IDE it izzz

I looked at various options to base my desktop "TrabantIDE" on. It should basically do five things: load/save, syntax highlighted edit, run the code through the Python interpreter, display the simulation process (TrabantSim) in some good way, and finally log the output of the Python interpreter to some text pane. I wanted to avoid bloated for my sanity. Atom sure is fancy, but it's written in CoffeeScript/brower-ish. Node.js. tl;dr.

I finally settled on SciTE, which seems like a perfect fit as it had 4/5 features built-in! It seems very customizable (through some .properties files). All I need to do is to replace the icon, fiddle with the toolbar and add a tab for the simulator. And of course give huge credits where they're due: Neil Hodgson, thanks man! You rock! It's really rare to find a piece of software this well-written and without a ton of dependencies.

The only trouble so far was fetching the code as it was hosted on SourceForge (downloading snapshots is for n00b aiit?). I eventually installed a fork of git-remote-hg, pip2 and pymercurial on my Ubuntu machine. Thank you O Software God for package management. Ta-da - it just went through the compiler and now it's running! Tonight and tomorrow I rest, Friday it's time to get to work.