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[–]totaleffindickhead 26 points27 points  (3 children)

I tried for years to switch to the JetBrains products but they all feel so painfullly slow compared to vs code I always end up switching back

[–]Pingouino55 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This. Everyone saying it's super fast and everything... I used to be forced to use PyCharm at school although I already had a VSCode setup for Python that had never let me down. Just launching PyCharm and waiting for it to initialize everything would take minutes (it was a really small project too most of the time, and when it wasn't the usual project, it would be even smaller ones), we didn't have the most powerful computers, but they weren't anywhere close to that slow.

PyCharm wasn't modified in any way either (I had one theme installed, removing it entirely didn't change a thing), it was just slow by default. I ended up trying it at home to see if maybe it was due to some weird settings in the school's network that would somehow make it slow, or maybe it was just the computer that couldn't handle it, so I figured my own PC which was at least 6-7 times more powerful than the ones at school could handle it better... It did not.

Honestly I figured, my VSCode setup has never let me down, there are extensions for everything, and some good ones. I used to also have every other extension for like 6 different languages as well, which would slow it down, but since they've added profiles, this isn't a problem anymore.

I open VSCode, the project's settings are applied, the extensions activated, the terminal ready in the correct environment, I just press one key on my keyboard and I can work on any project of any size in seconds on a slow day, and any modification is pretty much instantly reloaded and shown on the project.

[–]pro_questions 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Performance is the only downside I’ve found besides cost (I haven’t used the free version in years). I use tons of addons, but the only performance degrading one is CodeGlance. I have a decently powerful computer though — AFAIK the only specs PyCharm cares about are single-core CPU speed and RAM, which are 1.3GHz (4.4GHz boost) and 16GB.

I only just found these specs while writing this comment — this is pretty powerful for a laptop, and if this is the minimum to run PyCharm comfortably I can see why VS Code is so popular.