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Out of curiosity, can you explain why you created the community edition for PyCharm, but not others?

• yole 13y ago
  First, with PyCharm there is a possibility to have both a community edition which covers a sufficient breadth of scenarios and a good value-add for the professional version to make it commercially attractive. This wouldn't work for other products. Second, we're specifically mentioning that we want people who first start to learn programming to have access to our products. And a lot of learning these days happens with Python specifically.
  • tehwalrus 13y ago
    Thank you! learners need IDEs too! (not a learner, but back when I coded .NET I couldn't have lived without resharper. Quite excited that I can use PyCharm now too!)
  • acjohnson55 13y ago
    Awesome! I think you guys are going to be for Python what Eclipse was for Java about a decade ago. I'm a paying PyCharm customer, and I absolutely love it. The pace of development is excellent too.