I have a real dislike of the way PyCharm works with virtualenvs and requirements.txt. Every single developer I have spoken with who has used pycharm from the start (or at least early on) has no idea about these and has had to have them explained to them because their IDE just hides it away from them. PyCharm users also seem to struggle to update requirements.txt if they have changed a dependency - same reason.
Then there is the speed. VSC is orders of magnitude faster to start up on my laptop. It feels snappier during use and I never feel like it is slowing me down - unlike PyCharm.
I want to like the jetbrains IDEs but they always feel a little sluggish in a way I can’t quite define. It’s like they take a few milliseconds too long to react to input and it throws me off my stride.
I have a real dislike of the way PyCharm works with virtualenvs and requirements.txt. Every single developer I have spoken with who has used pycharm from the start (or at least early on) has no idea about these and has had to have them explained to them because their IDE just hides it away from them. PyCharm users also seem to struggle to update requirements.txt if they have changed a dependency - same reason.
Then there is the speed. VSC is orders of magnitude faster to start up on my laptop. It feels snappier during use and I never feel like it is slowing me down - unlike PyCharm.
I want to like the jetbrains IDEs but they always feel a little sluggish in a way I can’t quite define. It’s like they take a few milliseconds too long to react to input and it throws me off my stride.
I feel like VSCode may load faster.. But for the extensions to get booted.. That takes probably even more time than PyCharm.
As for some PyCharm developers not understanding config, makes sense. Notable point.