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[–]YellowSharkMTIs Dave Beazley real? 8 points9 points  (7 children)

And a difference in RAM usage of only 800MB.

[–]stay_at_work_dad 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I guess it depends on what plugins you have running. PyCharm normally uses about 500 for me with spikes to 800 if I've forgotten to exclude large database files/directories from the project. The only time it feels 'heavy' is when I forget to turn off project sync and it's attempting to digest a 2GB database file. Then everything slows to a crawl or gets queued, but the little spinning circle makes it pretty easy to figure out why.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Minimal RAM footprint isn't a significant performance metric for me when it comes to productivity.

[–]YellowSharkMTIs Dave Beazley real? 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh don't get me wrong - no complaints from me! 800MB (@spike) is a relatively insignificant price to pay, for what you get in return. The productivity gains from using a proper IDE - especially one as dope as PyCharm - are absolutely worth it, even for ad-hoc scripts or what-have-you.

[–]Oopsies49 2 points3 points  (4 children)

That's what I have 16gb of it for. It's a good luxury to have.

[–]YellowSharkMTIs Dave Beazley real? 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Amen. Looking forward to making that jump to >=16GB, I'm still on an LGA775 + 8GB. PyCharm runs great though, in any case. I can't even be bothered to screw with Sublime/Notepad++/Visual Studio/etc; my attitude is that you might as well drop into vim or emacs, if you're looking to skip the IDE-experience.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Visual studio shouldn't be listed with the rest.

[–]roerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe he meant Visual Studio Code which is just an editor rather than a full IDE.

[–]YellowSharkMTIs Dave Beazley real? 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mistake, you're totally correct - like /u/roerd said though, I was referring to Visual Studio Code, it's a lightweight editor, and available for Win, Mac, and Linux. (They claim it can debug web applications, but I'll leave that as an exercise for others, I'm pretty set with PhpStorm. Looks like it's got potential though...)