I think it's hard to beat Pycharm when one is writing something new in python - even the community edition - but I always gravitate back to vim/nvim without thi

I think it's hard to beat Pycharm when one is writing something new in python - even the community edition - but I always gravitate back to vim/nvim without thinking about it because my IDE is really the commandline. It's about how big the project is and how much I know it. The smaller and more known it is, the more I cannot be bothered with the extreme inconvenience of having to steer a huge oil-tanker-like IDE to do what I want and accept that it doesn't exist on this machine or that were I want to do work remotely. It has all the searching and finding and probably SFTP stuff that could do things but that means I cannot use all my CLI muscle memory and ways which are far more generally useful. In a project I'm not familiar with, Pycharm helps me autodiscover what's going on better and not waste as much time. It's also good for refactoring things with more certainty about whether I've broken it or not. A good set of unit tests are much better than an IDE but since that's not often available I'll take any advantage I can get. I find that having flake8 setup so that it runs in vim is an enormous help on its own even though it doesn't begin to match what an IDE can do. For 2-4 screen scripts it gives a good balance of preventing annoyingly silly mistakes versus convenience.