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> it's nearly impossible to justify paying for an IDE. The reason I pay for IntelliJ IDEA is exactly the fact that I don't have to install any plugins, or fidd
by RussianCow 6y ago
> it's nearly impossible to justify paying for an IDE.
The reason I pay for IntelliJ IDEA is exactly the fact that I don't have to install any plugins, or fiddle with config settings, or really do much of anything; the product works extremely well out of the box with all of the IDE features I would ever want (and then some). The last time I seriously tried VS Code[0], I felt like I was constantly trying different plugins and changing various settings in order to get it working the way I want, and many of them weren't quite as polished as what I get immediately with IntelliJ.
[0]: Admittedly, this was over a year ago, so it's possible things have improved. But I'd rather pay $89/year than spend the time to find out.
- bredren 6y agoI’m a heavy pycharm user and have found there are plugins that handle gaps in the IDE. Some of them are for minor customization like hot keys to move tabs. But the product doesn’t support Environment Variable configuration very well. For example, Pycharm can’t injest a .env file. The devs point at a plug-in, but that doesn’t cover runtime and terminal / python shell.