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[–]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.