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Ex-PyCharm Pro user here, switched to VS Code about 3 years back. I’m very happy - and comfortable - with VS Code but sometimes do wonder what I’m missing. Any

Ex-PyCharm Pro user here, switched to VS Code about 3 years back. I’m very happy - and comfortable - with VS Code but sometimes do wonder what I’m missing. Anyone else recently gone one way or the other and got some thoughts?

viraptor 3y ago
I moved from vscode to rubymine. Way more responsive and less memory hungry with many projects open. They are pretty similar now anyway with the new UI. Also out-of-the-box lints for JS are so much better in JB.
wokwokwok 3y ago
Why did you swap? There’s no reason to use vscode other than it’s free. Even the first party plug-ins are disappointingly bad for all languages other than javascript. Unless you’re heavily using js/ts, and lightly using another language, the vscode language support for many languages (in my personal experience, specifically python, c# and c) … it’s just bad. It’s free. It’s great to get something like vscode for literally nothing, but if you’re not constrained by the (relatively trivial) cost of the JB products, there no meaningful reason to move over the vscode. …but that isn’t new, and as both a pycharm and vscode user, it should come as no surprise. So… nothing has meaningfully changed? The new UI is vaguely annoying, but vscode like, if it makes any difference to you. The refactoring and autocomplete is categorically superior. The vscode collaboration stuff is better than the half baked IntelliJ stuff, but it always was. The vscode copilot plugin is better than the IntelliJ one, which is a bit flakey in its suggestions sometimes, and screws up the default autocomplete sometimes. It still uses a lot of memory, but so does vscode once you load it up with plugins. Eh, tldr; if you left for a reason, there’s probably no reason to come back.
polynomial 3y ago
Obvious difference is Jetbrains moved to autosave long ago, whereas VSCode never swayed from user save.

viraptor 3y ago

I moved from vscode to rubymine. Way more responsive and less memory hungry with many projects open. They are pretty similar now anyway with the new UI. Also out-of-the-box lints for JS are so much better in JB.

wokwokwok 3y ago

Why did you swap? There’s no reason to use vscode other than it’s free. Even the first party plug-ins are disappointingly bad for all languages other than javascript. Unless you’re heavily using js/ts, and lightly using another language, the vscode language support for many languages (in my personal experience, specifically python, c# and c) … it’s just bad. It’s free. It’s great to get something like vscode for literally nothing, but if you’re not constrained by the (relatively trivial) cost of the JB products, there no meaningful reason to move over the vscode. …but that isn’t new, and as both a pycharm and vscode user, it should come as no surprise. So… nothing has meaningfully changed? The new UI is vaguely annoying, but vscode like, if it makes any difference to you. The refactoring and autocomplete is categorically superior. The vscode collaboration stuff is better than the half baked IntelliJ stuff, but it always was. The vscode copilot plugin is better than the IntelliJ one, which is a bit flakey in its suggestions sometimes, and screws up the default autocomplete sometimes. It still uses a lot of memory, but so does vscode once you load it up with plugins. Eh, tldr; if you left for a reason, there’s probably no reason to come back.

polynomial 3y ago

Obvious difference is Jetbrains moved to autosave long ago, whereas VSCode never swayed from user save.