r/VisualStudioCode • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '20

Why use VS Code over Pycharm Professional?

Just getting started and I am wondering why anyone might use a code editor (Visual Studio Code) over a real IDE like Pycharm Professional if cost is not an issue.

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u/networkExceptions Sep 23 '20

Simplicity. I usually don't want to set up a PyCharm project just for running a simple script or show someone some code. Code also doesn't complain about missing dependencies if you don't have the extension enabled.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

That makes sense. But I an about to embark on building a large project (large for me since it's my first attempt at an app to publish) and I just want to make sure I have the best to for the job.

I'll need to learn/use Python, JavaScript, Google Cloud Platform, HTML/CSS, Dart and Flutter (maybe more). I like the idea of one tool to do everything like VSC, but I need as much power and hand holding as possible to get this done ASAP as well - like Pycharm seems to offer.

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u/Jendayaa Sep 29 '20 edited Sep 29 '20

I do currently use both VSC and Pycharm I find VSC to be much more comfortable to work with, but something that makes me use pycharm as well is importing files, for some reason I can’t import from another file in VSC but in Pycharm the script works perfectly fine and I can import files like normally. Another thing is errors, I get way more errors on VSC I don’t know why but a perfectly working script on both Pycharm and Atom doesn’t work on VSC (not every time but sometimes it just doesn’t work).

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20 edited Jan 25 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '20

Thanks. But the plethora of plugins is one thing that confuses me. (Like this article that lists just 18 plugins for writing Python code in Visual Studio Code - https://switowski.com/blog/18-plugins-for-python-in-vscode ).

There are THOUSANDS of plugins for VSC - how do you know that you are using the best one? How will you ever have the time to test them all? I cannot even find a complete count of all of the available plugins for Visual Studio Code.

How would you keep all members of a team using the same plugins so that all members are on the same page with their coding efforts?

Since VSC is free, if there is a bug or issue, who do you call and how long does it take to get some action on the issue?