Positron, a New Data Science IDE

14 kgwgk 7 8/19/2025, 2:20:25 PM posit.co ↗

Comments (7)

datadrivenangel · 37m ago
Basically R studio/Spyder + Cursor built on the Code - OSS behind VSCode.

Potentially very exciting. The early builds a year or two ago that I tried were too buggy to replace R Studio, but a tight integration of good data tools, a good IDE, and modern AI coding assistants is going to be very powerful if posit nails this.

xnx · 7m ago
Being able to install Gemini Code Assist is a big plus over RStudio.
actinium226 · 27m ago
Not exactly new, but I do think it has promise as a MATLAB replacement for Python. Spyder already does quite a good job at that though.
dmicah · 19m ago
I think PyCharm does a pretty good job as being a MATLAB-like IDE replacement for Python.
fluorinerocket · 17m ago
I'll stick with spyder
panbd · 32m ago
Behold, a free-as-in-beer, source-available program that brands itself as "free and open source".

These guys' PR is trying too hard.

piskov · 39m ago
Meh. Another vscode reskin. And calling it IDE is a bit presumptuous.

Dataspell is IDE.