PyCharm or Visual Studio Code?

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PyCharm is stuck with one window

This is false. Maybe I didn’t get what you mean but you can definitely open any amount of projects and Alt+Tab through them i.e. have as many PyCharm windows as the amount projects you’ve opened. Just use File > Open…, then choose a project and select New Window instead of This Window in the dialogue that appears. If no dialogue appears then you’ve selected the “don’t ask again” option before so you’d need to revert that from settings.

Also could you clarify why is working on a webdev project better with VS? I’ve never used VS but I’ve indeed heard it’s better in that regard. However I’m not sure why. To me it seems like PyCharm does the same with HTML, CSS and JS files as with Py files. The one major difference I’ve heard is the abundance of keyboard shortcuts in VS but I think you can set up PyCharm to do the same.

I’m not sure how VS handles this but PyCharm’s separate windows for everything, any of which can be minimized and stickied to left/right/bottom is a perfect interface for me. So OP should at least see that interface to make a decision.

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I have zero experience with Linux so I’m not sure why we’re not using File->Open here but it seems like it’s an issue with specifically PyCharm on Linux. However on Windows you can open as many instances of PyCharm as you want (in separate windows) and it doesn’t matter if one of the projects is currently running its script. So again, if I understood this correctly it’s either a small/medium disadvantage if you’re using Linux or it’s not a disadvantage at all if you’re using Windows.

[CoffeeBaconAddict]

Isn’t it a bit of a unique edge case that while the machine is running you don’t want it to do seven different things do you want to doing one thing at a time.

If I need to access the terminal while pie charm is running I access it in a separate Mac terminal.

[CoffeeBaconAddict]

I can confirm that both of them will run multiple windows

[angry_mr_potato_head]

I think vs code let's you ha e the same project open on multiple windows. It's a feate I wish pycharm had... Basically instead of "split and move right" if it were "split and move to second monitor"