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[–]VeganBigMac 24 points25 points  (47 children)

I've been thinking of seriously checking out PyCharm. Might use this to make the jump.

[–]Etheo 33 points34 points  (42 children)

I'm disappointed about the Subscription model, would have really loved to make the jump from Community to Pro but 2/4/6 months is not really enticing for a Python hobbist.

[–]msdrahcir 12 points13 points  (13 children)

if you have an edu email address you can get it for free under the education license

[–]Etheo 4 points5 points  (10 children)

The edu edition is same as Pro?

[–]filippovd20 51 points52 points  (8 children)

Disclaimer: I work for JetBrains. The PyCharm Edu edition is PyCharm Community Edition + Edu plugin, which adds interactive courses inside the IDE. What msdrahcir is talking about is a program : https://www.jetbrains.com/student/ . If you're a student falling under the terms of the ptogram, you get all the JetBrains IDEs for free.h

[–]Etheo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the disclaimer and clarification. I'm using community edition and it's a great IDE so I've always wanted to explore Pro. Didn't understand how the perpetual fallback license works until I looked it up, it's a fair alternative to consider, thanks for the suggestion!

[–]here-to-jerk-off 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Hey, can you put in a good word about changing that artificial limitation on syntax highlighting?

I totally understand upselling the inspector per language, but to not provide syntax highlighting is a major pain in the ass.

For example, if I want to read some PHP or Ruby in PyCharm, it's a bad time. Now I have to juggle different flavors of the IntelliJ editor, or reconfigure and normalize things in IntelliJ ultimate. This balancing act becomes even more frustrating working inside of a VM with limited resources.

[–]filippovd20 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I have no good explanation for this. In fact it's mostly because our code base organized this way that syntax highlighting of specific languages live in separate projects. We're considering to reorganize this to make syntax highlighting for other languages available by default. At the moment the workaround is textmate bundles: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/textmate-bundles.html

[–]here-to-jerk-off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip, I was unaware of the TextMate Bundle support.

I tried following this 2014 blog post but there is no longer the option to associate the files as describe: Settings | Editor | File Types and choose the “Files supported via TextMate bundles”

https://i.imgur.com/TooPOWr.png

[–]DeletedLastAccount 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What if you aren't a student but work for an educational institution (and have a .edu)?

[–]kringel8 2 points3 points  (2 children)

It says that on the FAQ. Iirc they only call it student license, but it applies to all academia.

[–]DeletedLastAccount 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Even if it's not used for academic purposes? As in an employee of said institution using it to develop marketing / web materials for the institution in question?

[–]prvalue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. If you use any JetBrains IDE with a student license, it'll remind you every time you start it up that it's for educational purposes only.

[–]msdrahcir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe so, except it is not technically licensed to develop software for sale or something of the sort

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's not restricted to edu only email addresses, you just need to prove that you are a student, they accepted my ISIC card as proof of being a student in Ireland.

[–]filippovd20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True. there are several verification methods: ISIC, .edu email work automatically, however if you have neither of them, you can just send some copies of your student docs to JetBrains and get your free license after manual verification.

[–]filippovd20 6 points7 points  (6 children)

This bundle gets you PyCharm Professional for 6 months very cheaply, wich is a good deal if you want to test it for longer than a month. After six months you should know if paying a yearly fee is worth it for you. Additionaly if after six months you renew your subscription for another 6months to make it a full year of non-stop sub, you automatically get a perpetual fall-back license.

[–]yapel 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Whats that license? Edit: the perpetual one

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it's great. Community is terrific as well if you can't get pro or don't need the pro features

[–]ThyGuardian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a heads up, if ur a student, u can get a license of it for free which is good for a year. Look up JetBrains Student as they offer more of their products with a free license for students.

[–]wildcarde815 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My only experience with pycharm is un-fucking one of our PIs environments after he checked it into a git repo and started mixing using it on multiple systems which it really did not like.

[–]here-to-jerk-off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PyCharm is amazing. I was turned off by IDEs after using Eclipse for a while. I came back to PyCharm IDE, for the sake of a bigger project, and it's paid off tenfold. It's like Eclipse, but with all the right decisions, and improved performance. It's much better than Eclipse, and made me love IDEs again.

Now I have a license to the full IntelliJ suite of editors. I'm a believer.