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As a long-term pycharm user that recently migrated to VSCode im quite happy to see jetbrains building this. My main gripe with their stack is that I work across

As a long-term pycharm user that recently migrated to VSCode im quite happy to see jetbrains building this. My main gripe with their stack is that I work across many languages and workflows and I like to use the exact same keymaps configurations and so on and pycharm just didn't give you that. I really love the idea of the virtualized file system allowing you to develop anywhere. I hope this works well. Comparably, VSCode's remote containers really do a poor job of allowing one to develop over ssh connections, which I do constantly.

hanikesn 5y ago
Why not use intellij ultimate? You can easily add all the language plugins (mod clion based ones).
- mikkelam 5y ago
  Why? Because I'm a second class citizen in a java IDE. No thanks. The marketing is also quite clear on the target audience https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/
  - square_usual 5y ago
    Not really, tbh. IntelliJ Ultimate + the Ruby extension is RubyMine with a different name. Likewise with Go and JS, and I'm sure it's the same for php etc. but I can't speak for those. I've used this setup when I was testing out a bunch of languages for fun.
    - ta988 5y ago
      It is my experience as well. I only use CLion for Rust and C. All the rest (Python, TS, Kotlin, Ruby, Scala) I do in IntelliJ.
    - wilsonnb3 5y ago
      It is not true for C#, you need Rider for that. That is the only exception I am aware of, though.
    - squeaky-clean 5y ago
      The plugins are not updated as quickly as the language-specific IDEs, sometimes they are several months behind on newer features. Not really a big deal if you wait a few months to update your Python version, but it's annoying if you update early. I used to use only IntelliJ until a few years ago a Python feature I wanted was in PyCharm but not IntelliJ. I think it was related to the typing module? I can't quite remember. I've just stuck with PyCharm for python ever since. edit: But also, I've never had any issue copying my key configs between PyCharm, Rider, IntelliJ.
      - nafg 5y ago
        But they could solve that without rewriting the whole platform
  - schwartzworld 5y ago
    Be that as it may, I've used Webstorm and Intellij Ultimate with JS plugins and the experience was pretty much identical.

hanikesn 5y ago

Why not use intellij ultimate? You can easily add all the language plugins (mod clion based ones).

mikkelam 5y ago
Why? Because I'm a second class citizen in a java IDE. No thanks. The marketing is also quite clear on the target audience https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/
- square_usual 5y ago
  Not really, tbh. IntelliJ Ultimate + the Ruby extension is RubyMine with a different name. Likewise with Go and JS, and I'm sure it's the same for php etc. but I can't speak for those. I've used this setup when I was testing out a bunch of languages for fun.
  - ta988 5y ago
    It is my experience as well. I only use CLion for Rust and C. All the rest (Python, TS, Kotlin, Ruby, Scala) I do in IntelliJ.
  - wilsonnb3 5y ago
    It is not true for C#, you need Rider for that. That is the only exception I am aware of, though.
  - squeaky-clean 5y ago
    The plugins are not updated as quickly as the language-specific IDEs, sometimes they are several months behind on newer features. Not really a big deal if you wait a few months to update your Python version, but it's annoying if you update early. I used to use only IntelliJ until a few years ago a Python feature I wanted was in PyCharm but not IntelliJ. I think it was related to the typing module? I can't quite remember. I've just stuck with PyCharm for python ever since. edit: But also, I've never had any issue copying my key configs between PyCharm, Rider, IntelliJ.
    - nafg 5y ago
      But they could solve that without rewriting the whole platform
- schwartzworld 5y ago
  Be that as it may, I've used Webstorm and Intellij Ultimate with JS plugins and the experience was pretty much identical.