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I have used both softwares but stick with VSCode for Python, simply because it is very powerful to have one great editor for all projects, as opposed to one spe

I have used both softwares but stick with VSCode for Python, simply because it is very powerful to have one great editor for all projects, as opposed to one specialized IDE for each. PyCharm is (AFAIK) monolithic in what it brings to the table, whereas VSCode is more modular. As such, some of your points are true, but not an inherit fault of VSCode, but probably of some settings/underlying tools used. Maybe these can get you a better experience: 3. Agreed with VSCode being lackluster, but switching to MS Language Server [0] has helped this a great deal (while having other downsides, like being slower). 5. VSCode also has a variable viewer/browser and an interactive shell (which cannot be IPython as of today, however [1]) 6. Disagree: I forgot what VSCode uses per default, but I switched to `black` for formatting, which works very well (` "python.formatting.provider": "black"` in settings.json). For linting, I switched to `mypy` (which also handles type hints, which is helpful), which can be set via `Python: Select Linter` (CTRL+SHIFT+P). `mypy` seems to be powerful. It definitely catches method 1st arguments not being `self`. 0: https://github.com/microsoft/python-language-server https://github.com/microsoft/python-language-server 1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47701629/vs-code-run-ipython-in-debug-console https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47701629/vs-code-run-ipy...

heavenlyblue 6y ago
You are forgetting that PyCharm is actually IDEA, which is an IDE for all languages out there.
_coveredInBees 6y ago
5. They have a variable viewer, but as far as I can tell, it only works when in debugging mode? Not if you are prototyping code in a REPL, which is my workflow when developing code 99% of the time. It is also a bit limited compared to Pycharm. Vscode also does not handle multi-line interactive code nearly as well when working in the REPL in the debugger. 6. Yup, it supports linting, but my point was that Pycharm has better overall support for linting/code-intelligence in that it is better at auto-fixing things or having shortcuts to do so, without having to resort to something as extreme as `black`. It handles multi-line strings, or just general formatting of multi-line stuff perfectly. If I hit enter after `long_var_name = `, it will automatically put in a back-slash so you can continue writing a multi-line expression. I edit in both vscode and pycharm and I usually will still find useful things that the Pycharm linter catches or code-formatting things that Vscode does not (and I have tried a dew different linters though perhaps I should give mypy a shot). I raise all these as a big proponent of vscode. Nothing would make me happier than to switch to it for all my Python development work as I enjoy the UX a lot more over Pycharm in the code writing/editing side of things. But Pycharm is just superior in so many ways that improves my productivity that I have not been able to make the swap despite several attempts.

heavenlyblue 6y ago

You are forgetting that PyCharm is actually IDEA, which is an IDE for all languages out there.

_coveredInBees 6y ago

5. They have a variable viewer, but as far as I can tell, it only works when in debugging mode? Not if you are prototyping code in a REPL, which is my workflow when developing code 99% of the time. It is also a bit limited compared to Pycharm. Vscode also does not handle multi-line interactive code nearly as well when working in the REPL in the debugger. 6. Yup, it supports linting, but my point was that Pycharm has better overall support for linting/code-intelligence in that it is better at auto-fixing things or having shortcuts to do so, without having to resort to something as extreme as `black`. It handles multi-line strings, or just general formatting of multi-line stuff perfectly. If I hit enter after `long_var_name = `, it will automatically put in a back-slash so you can continue writing a multi-line expression. I edit in both vscode and pycharm and I usually will still find useful things that the Pycharm linter catches or code-formatting things that Vscode does not (and I have tried a dew different linters though perhaps I should give mypy a shot). I raise all these as a big proponent of vscode. Nothing would make me happier than to switch to it for all my Python development work as I enjoy the UX a lot more over Pycharm in the code writing/editing side of things. But Pycharm is just superior in so many ways that improves my productivity that I have not been able to make the swap despite several attempts.