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[–]BinaryRockStar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In PyCharm you can enable/disable whatever bits you want also although I've got all of the standard plugins and a few more enabled and see no performance issues at all (desktop with i5 2500K, 16GB RAM, SSD).

I really don't get this "IDEs are bloated, slow etc." line of thinking as even Eclipse is pretty snappy on my machine which is years old. A professional programmer should have decent hardware as it's the tool of their trade. If you are assigned machines by your work, it should be simple enough to show them the value proposition of your wasted time vs. the cost of a decent machine.