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> I have a subscription to PyCharm through work and still think it's inferior to VSCode

I'm trying to figure out how anyone could think that. Every time I switch to VS Code I feel hamstrung.

What do you find to be inferior?

While I also felt limited in vscode compared to pycharm, it definitely feels more polished. I've had some bugs in pycharm for years with no progress on their issue tracker, and new features feel a bit slopilly implemented.

Also the built-in type checker is just bad

PyCharm is much more sluggish. And I have had a lot more luck using dev containers in VSCode than PyCharm. In general, I find the process of getting an interpretter set up much nicer in VSCode.

Both work for Python syntax highlighting. But I've had several bugs in PyCharm that took several versions to get fixed. To be fair, individual extensions in VSCode can also have bugs, but I've generally found it easier to work around issues because it is less "bundled".

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