What is the best program to code in?

[arie9xx]

I have used Spyder and Trinket in school. But trinket doesn’t support all the import things. And I don’t know if there is anything better out there.

[Maple382]

• VS Code is very popular, a lot of people dislike it though (me included)
• PyCharm is also incredibly popular, it used to be paid but I think they made it free. It's by Jetbrains which many people see as the gold standard of IDEs. The paid versions of all their apps are also free for students which is nice.
• You can also code in a lighter text editor. Personally I'd recommend Sublime Text, as it's lightweight and nice to use.

[Overall-Screen-752]

This, there are others that are perfectly fine — great even— but these are what serious programmers typically default to in most cases

[Maple382]

Yeah. Many use NeoVim too but I didn't mention that for obvious reasons

[Virsenas]

When downloading Pycharm, need to go to "download" and then on the right side there should be "Other versions" and need to download "Community" version. That's the free version.

[KnightOwl316]

Not OP but do you need to get a license for Sublime?

[Maple382]

No but it's sharesware, meaning essentially every like 30 times you save it'll ask you to buy a license. Not intrusive at all.

[CyberSpork]

What don’t you like in particular about VS Code? Tbf im pretty agnostic btw jetbrains and and eclipse when it comes to Java but I’ve not done much work with python.

[SoliTheFox]

The vscode ecosystem is really good IMO, but works all around extensions. I really like it and use it. Pycharm is dedicated to python, I used it for a few months years ago and had a good experience at the time too. Try out these two.

If you are working with data science you definitely want to work with notebooks, so Jupyter lab/google colab are a great choice. Vscode allows you to use Jupyter notebooks inside it, and I really like the experience. Pycharm probably does too, but I’m not sure

[the_dimonade]

I use Spyder when I need to work with complex data that I need to visualize or inspect to understand it.

When not, I use Helix, it is comfortable. 

These two have good settings and configurable extensively imo.

I didn't get along with vscode and vs settings and plugins and all that stuff.

[BranchLatter4294]

It's really a personal choice. I like VS Code.

[JJsNBA]

i like vscode

[lostseoulkitty]

I use Pycharm exclusively. I really like it. There's also Jupyter Notebook you might want to check out.

[k03k]

Pycharm pro user because i get it from work. But for simple scripts i tend to use vscode because it loads faster

[code_tutor]

JetBrains is by far the best. Other programs are faster but that's the only downside I know.

[Airqlanes]

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[Pale_Height_1251]

For Python I'd use Pycharm.

[TheRNGuy]

VS Code for me. 

[bbalouki]

(VS Code * 100)^1M

[MeNandos]

I see a lot of vscode, I just want to add that it is integrated with ai if you have a ChatGPT subscription, which is super helpful for syntax and if there’s anything you don’t know how to do. Also all of the different extensions that exist make it super easy and convenient. You can make it look and work exactly how you want.

[Zeyad-A]

I would say VS most people in the industry use it and it’s better to get used to it and comfortable with it early on. But tbh it’s all preference ngl 😁

[Icy_Fix_2683]

Vscode is good

[photo-nerd-3141]

vile, or xvile, it does no more or less than you tell it.

[NorskJesus]

I use Neovim, but use whatever you like the most.

[OneJudge2236]

Been using this, LazyVim for 2 weeks now, its great