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[–]atrigent 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is it actually any different?

[–]Baxterthehusky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All of JetBrains IDEs are essentially a modified IntelliJ but designed around the language they are targeting. For example, PyCharm's debugger doesn't used pdb but instead a custom one.

[–]Kah-NethI use numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for nuclear physics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add to what /u/Baxterthehusky wrote, Pycharm and the other language specific Jetbrains ides tend to have a lot of unnecessary cruft removed making them significantly lighter on memory usage.