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Also, never forget that they've bought out Atom extensions in the past to insert promotions for Kite.

https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm...

https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...

Edit: Related HN thread with ~400 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653

Thanks for the info. I stopped using Spyder over the annoying and distracting promotions. This confirms my feelings about it.

It is also time consuming to properly install from source, via GitHub, versus Anaconda. It does have a learning curve in that sense, even for someone pretty experienced.

I am currently using Atom. I may switch to Sublime Text and add extensions to make it a Python IDE.

We were aware of that and very careful to not allow something like it for Spyder users.

I mean, the point isn't that Kite can't succeed at integrating with third party tools in less user-hostlile ways. The point is that I'm not touching Kite with a thousand-foot pole after what they've done in the past. The trust has been lost. And the idea that it "nags" you to install Kite seems to indicate that money has traded hands somewhere, as in this is an advertisement. It just seems like much the same as before.

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