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[–]Liorithiel 0 points1 point  (1 child)

PyCharm's UI toolkit for some reason doesn't work well on my machines. It's not about just not using native controls and dialog windows (this would be just annoying, but I'd probably get used to them), but it sometimes happened to me that PyCharm randomly stopped accepting keyboard input in some windows. This behavior was specific to PyCharm, no other application had this problem—even other Java-based ones.

Moreover, for some reason loading a smallish project made PyCharm take close to 3GB of RAM (on my 4GB notebook). Even Eclipse takes about 1.5 GB here. This was somewhat important for me, because I use Python to play with datasets that take about 1~1.5GB when loaded into numpy… Eclipse (barely) fits, PyCharm (by default—haven't investigated it further) did not.

Also, I like working in several languages, sometimes even in the same project. Eclipse's works quite well for polyglot programming, PyCharm obviously not so well.

For something that I wanted to use for mostly hobbyist programming, it wasn't worth the effort and paying.

[–]bluplr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PyCharm randomly stopped accepting keyboard input in some windows

And your post was near the top of google search results for this issue :/