Pycharm professional cost pro#
I guess I just don't see the value in doing things by hand that are already done for you (for the most part) in an IDE like Pycharm.Īgain, I get that Pycharm Pro is $199 a year ($649/year gets you all 15 IDEs and tools from JetBrains) and Visual Studio Code has no up front costs. I see every additional step in VSC as a waste of precious time and a potential error (if something is not set up correctly).Īnd what about making sure that all programmers are using the same plugins and settings? Sure, there's a plugin for that too, but any change to one machine's settings runs the risk of changing all of the other machines which means that you have to be careful what you change if you are using a plugin like Settings Sync in VSC. You'd have to turn it off to stop it.īut, in VSC, you have to load a plugin like Python Auto Venv to get that functionality and then you have a plethora of settings that you must set to get it to work. In Pycharm, this is done for you automatically. For example, when coding in Python, the best practice is to use virtual environments to keep your projects from interfering with one another when they require different versions of the same components. So does saving time - something that I see as being easier in and IDE like Pycharm than in something like VSC. MVP makes sense from a financial standpoint. In case you didn't know, "minimum viable product" is where you code only the most needed features of your new software and ship it as quickly as possible to minimize development costs and judge if there is a desire for the product before putting more time and money into it. there is also the question of "minimum viable product". Who decides? How do they decide? Do you test every extension of a certain type to make sure that you have the very best extension for the job? Who has time for that?įor me. In addition to extensions that may or may not be supported day to day, there is the question of which extensions you will use.
This alone is enough to put me off Visual Studio Code.
Pycharm professional cost for free#
He has been looking for people to work for free to maintain the code for months now. The developer doesn't have time to continue to develop and debug the extension. Take Live Server for example.one of the most installed VSC extensions. Do I really want to trust my code, the code that will determine the success of my project, to extensions that are only supported when a developer has time to do so? I am coding a new project that is very important to me.
What about the long term costs? What about the unsupported code issues? What about the slower coding due to having to do so much more in VSC that a proper IDE does for you (like Pycharm)? I get that it is "free", but that is only the up-front cost. I am trying to understand why businesses would use Visual Studio Code over something like Pycharm.