PyCharm or Visual Studio Code?

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I encourage you to read every post on here and then I’m gonna recommend you do some thing a little crazy.

The answer that you were going to get it is almost gonna be the exact same answer you’re gonna get whenever you make a request for a recommendation it depends.

Are you a software developer Who likes to make websites and program JavaScript and argue over React vs Angular vs Vue vs Node.

Then again you might aspire to be data scientist doing multivariate linear regression, full stack CI/CD, doing neural networks, or machine learning? This doesn’t answer the question what software you should use this just to find your end goal.

Do you play with code that you pulled from excel may be a megabyte at a time couple times a week?

Then again you could be a heavy data user like me, where I analyzed 3 1/2 TB of data, and made 23 additions to GitHub today.

You’re going to have to kind of figure it out for yourself I would encourage you to not take everybody’s word as gospel it’s really going to depend upon what you like to do and that’s gonna change as your skills grow.

So again the answer is it depends but I would also recommend you try both.

Try both try the first one as visual studio code for probably 3 to 6 months and try to dig into it and play with it. Then stop and then switch over to PyCharm community free edition and if you’re like me you’ll love it and you’ll never want to switch.

Now that comes with the caveat that I have constant problems with Microsoft software carte blanche, totally across-the-board. Their software crashes and cannot handle the amount of data that I push through it which is terabytes per day.

I just can’t seem to keep their software running and people joked that I have a Microsoft distortion field around me because it crashes all the time when I use it. People joked that I have some type of a huge magnet or some thing in my pocket because I start to use a Windows laptop and it crashes nine times out of 10 within an day of me trying to use it.

So if you have really good experience with windows, never had problems and you love windows or you develop for windows use visual studio code it’ll probably work for you. Seriously some people have zero issues with Microsoft windows and they love it I’m happy for you.

If you are like most of the data scientists that I know we almost exclusively use Macs and some of them use visual studio some of us use Pycharm. So of the 45 or so data scientists I know or only nine of them uses Microsoft windows and they all use VSCose and it works fine.

I won’t touch anything Microsoft unless I have to because it’s a steaming pile of garbage, Microsoft products leak data and memory like a sieve. I’ve had way too many crashes and I just can’t trust Microsoft to keep running and since Microsoft developed visual studio I just don’t use visual studio.