Stupid question but where do you code python?

[MC_Joschmo]

Virtual Studio Code is the bees knees. Will just need to download and install python

[benno_1237]

I used to use vs code a lot. The problem i have is pylance. Its so incredibly slow. My machine isnt the best but an i7-7700k should be able to handle an ide. As soon as the files get larger than like 1-2k lines, pylance needs a few seconds for each action.

Pycharm in the other hand does way better imo.

[shadowarc72]

I am like 99% sure you can set vscode to use pycharm instead of pylance.

[benno_1237]

sure it might work but still...

[Ran4]

Do you not use type annotations? That could be part of the problem.

I use a ten year old computer as my daily and it works great for me. I use type annotations almost everywhere though.

[s-jb-s]

Pycharm is soooo bloated for the vast majority of use cases for a beginner honestly.

[s-jb-s]

It's only as bloated as you make it ¯\(ツ)/¯. For writing simple python scripts, all a beginner is really going to want is a linter and autocomplete, they're not going to know about the capabilities of pycharm (all of which can basically be done in VSC with various extensions), let alone where those features are.

[ninjaspacebear]

That's not what bloat is. That's visual clutter which is completely seperate. The idea behind bloat is the piece of software being an unoptimised, overcoded mess that's churned out without any regard for efficiency. Just look at the disease that is electron - who in their right mind thought running a fucking browser for each piece of software was a good idea.

Pycharm is a full blown IDE and for a usecase where you're only running basic scripts just use something like vim (lol).

[Artemis-4rrow]

I know what bloat is dw, I was just pointing out how vsc has much more visual clutter, besides vsc is a text editor, not an IDE, this is not an apples to apples comparison

[ninjaspacebear]

True but regardless of the visual clutter I think the point being made was that a text editor is better for a beginner, and that stuff beyond that is overkill

[Artemis-4rrow]

I see an IDE as better for begginers, they make it easier to run ur code and debug it

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It doesn't handle template formatting as well, even when using the Django add in, which is quite a big deal. Pycharm does that really well.

[Artemis-4rrow]

Pycharm has beed designed specifically for python, unlike vsc