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Discussion on: Which editor/IDE do you use and why?

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Jordi Riera

I am programming mainly in Python.

I used to use Vim for years. While vim is awesome, I needed an IDE to manage projects and more advanced features like relations between files or debugger. Pycharm is really at the top of the game for that. The debugger is doing charms.
Additionally, there is a vim mode to keep best of both worlds!

I did pass by sublime, but it is too close too Vim for me. The management of project wasn't good enough for me.

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Promise Ogbonna

Vim emulation for VScode is not really there 😣

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Ben Halpern

Do you use the free or paid version of Pycharm?

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Jordi Riera

I did both.
After a year I switch to the paid version. The paid version gives some additional features like coverage, connection to database, templates languages like jinja2.
Worth features for my quest to a project manager IDE.

On top of it, other IDE from JetBrain are the same, was super easy for me to use Ruby, Go and C# based IDEs.

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Marcin K

In Sublime I use github.com/randy3k/ProjectManage
I can switch between projects in below second and manage a lot projects.

For python there is excellent damnwidget.github.io/anaconda/