[ccordoba12]

I respectfully disagree. The variable explorer allows to check what variables you have declared and how they change with changes in your code.

This is critical for scientific computing because you're constantly interacting with data (i.e. reading, cleaning, plotting and analyzing it), so having a dedicated pane for it is a great advantage.

[ajford]

I've found that people who aren't working on large data cubes or time series don't see as much value in variable explorers.

Anyone who's dealt with huge data arrays appreciate it.

Also, just wanna say Spyder looks like it's come a long way in the last decade. Congrats on some fine work!

Spyder got me off Matlab nearly a decade ago. I had just learned Python and had trouble getting Matlab access in my lab (I was an undergrad working on radio astro data) and after many weeks fighting with our dept. IT over a license, I started using Spyder, and it was pretty awesome. So many thanks to everyone who worked on Spyder!

[ccordoba12]

> Also, just wanna say Spyder looks like it's come a long way in the last decade. Congrats on some fine work!

Oh yeah, this is so true! Ten years ago, when I joined the project, it was just Pierre (Spyder's original author) and me. Then, in 2016, Anaconda gave us the resources to hire three developers part-time to work on the project, which was a huge boost (between 2012 and 2016 it was mostly me and three or four volunteers).

Now we have a team of five people working part or full time on Spyder, all hired by Quansight: https://www.quansight.com/

So you can expect lots more good things to come in the future.

[mkl]

That's good news.

Maybe you could let Quansight know their homepage is a bit broken (at least on Firefox on Android): The "READ MORE" link shows up on top of the text.