
Helpfulness ( Features )Īlright, we’ll be clear.
Pycharm professional vs pycharm community code#
But for this comparison thing, yeah VS Code wins 3. Winner: As long as you have good Desktop/Laptop go P圜harm.
Pycharm professional vs pycharm community full#
But thats no because its better in someway, it actually because VS Code doesn’t try to be a full IDE and keeps it simple as a text-editor, the memory footprint, startup-time, and overall responsiveness of VS Code is much better than P圜harm whereas P圜harm always enters the room guns blazing.

In the performance criteria, VS Code beats P圜harm no questions asked. VS code consumes significant memory only when I open multiple projects with dozens of files. Well, Even when running idle, P圜harm consumes around 1 GB of memory on my machine, while VS Code remains under 300 megabytes in almost all cases. Then after a few seconds, its actually pops up ? If not, Great ! But for us remaining mortals, performance is really something we don’t want to sacrifice on. Admit it, don’t you get just a little bit angry when click on chrome icon just lights up and nothing happens. Its something we all deeply care about whether we want to or not. Winner: Have to give this one to VS Code 2.

On the other hand, VS Code is FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software). On top of that, P圜harm Professional costs a not so cheap $200 a year. Visual Studio Code is completely free and Pycharm, although does have the community edition, does have a lot of gem of a features hidden behind the paywall (like remote debugging support, advanced Django support and support for JavaScript and CSS) that make P圜harm attractive for some users.

CostĪh the money question, well here there’s not much of a contest. And bear in mind, this is what I personally as a developer want from my IDE, but I hope y’all shall concur. Well, to better understand this, we can divide this question, based on what I wanted from my IDE and say whoever wins the most points, wins it all. The question now arises, if I’m working hardcore in Python, which IDE do I go with ? And the simple answer is, that there’s no simple answer. We love it in industry and academia alike and it often tops the most wanted programming language charts. Python as a programming language needs no introduction.
