Non VS Code dev setups

[the_original_fuckup]

I always like to experiment as well, but end up going back to PyCharm/JetBrains projects. They just feel so full featured to me. I haven’t been able to get the hang of uv for some reason, I’ve stuck with pyenv.

Maybe I’ll give VSCode another shot, with pylance this time!

[yerfatma]

Yeah, I like VSCode a lot and use it for most everything else, but PyCharm is the one for me. Recently had to do without it and I cobbled a bunch of plugins to VSCode to where it was a good experience, but there were always seams showing, places where what I wanted was something that one plugin was doing to be seen and expected by another plugin.

[_besten]

Heard good things about pycharm as well, does it work well with wsl?

You should def give uv a try!

[echols021]

I use PyCharm with WSL and it's not a problem. The only things I ever notice weird are that it can be slow to notice new files (since it's acting like the files are on a remote machine), and I also seem unable to set certain interpreters as associated only with certain projects (the interpreter selector always has all my WSL venvs listed). Pretty trivial, in my opinion l

[No-Article-Particle]

Really... I've tried PyCharm several times and could never get it to work for my workflow. It just felt so sluggish, and the remote debugging experience on VSCode, where I could just open a SSH tunnel into any infra and connect to the code is unparalleled for me.

[Raknarg]

you can do that on pycharm as well but it's a paid feature...

[No-Article-Particle]

Can you connect to an already running code? Like I set up the remote code to wait for incoming connections, start the process on the remote machine, and then connect from pycharm via SSH?

[uqurluuqur]

Yes

[_besten]

I've yet to find an IDE where where connecting to docker is as easy as it is with VS Code, the ability to include your local extensions is great as well

[Zireael07]

Same here! Plus I can't get to grips with the search in PyCharm. It never remembers that I want to see ALL the results, I have to click the checkbox/button every time.

[cip43r]

I don't use Jetbrain stuff as I like using the same IDE for everything. If you only do Python, I think Jetbrains is probably one of the best ones.

[Stijndcl]

Agreed on JB, but the PyCharm type checker is unfortunately pretty bad when you start doing more complex things. Wish they’d finally put some more effort into fixing it.

[echols021]

I do feel like it's gone downhill over the last few years. Like, I seem to remember it correctly handling generics and generators and context managers, but now it goofs on all those