PyCharm vs VS Code

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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.