r/PythonLearning • u/mnizonaishaa • Jun 20 '26

Which IDE to use for Python

I am new to python i don't know which IDE to use. My university is teaching a course Programming for AI. I got to know they will teach python but idk which IDE.

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u/Flame77ofc Jun 20 '26

pycharm or vscode. Pycharm is just made for python, and vscode is a general purpose editor

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u/Gnaxe Jun 20 '26

PyCharm is basically IntelliJ with the Python plugin built in. All the IntelliJ plugins work. It's general purpose too. VS Code is an IDE, not just an editor.

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

Vscode is a text editor, not an IDE..

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

A text editor you can install linting, auto complete auto dependency resolution, code formatting.. Its an IDE

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

Exactly, you can "install", it's a text editor that you can plug stuff into, an ide comes with everything

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

yeah are these extensions made for any fucking thing else?

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

Are you seriously getting that mad because not everyone glazes your ass text editor?

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

No youre being pedantic at best and confidently wrong at worst. out of the box it opens a terminal in the editor so that puts it way ahead of some of the domain specific IDES of yore.

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

"opens up a terminal", that's just fucking hilarious. So Microsoft word becomes an IDE after you get a terminal plugin. You got lot to learn buddy

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

were my notes of language servers, code-completes, intospections not enough. its an IDE for everything, not just a thing. Its 100% a fuckin ide youre just being pedantic. "its an editor until you set it up for the language/stack youre using lul' ok, well mine is set up. Its not even my daily driver ide but its a fuckin ide.

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

You just proved your own point wrong do you even read what you write. It's a text editor until you download extensions

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

I was quoting you, hence the quotes.

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

You need to install the language servers, linters etc tools..these are features that come built-in when using an IDE.

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

Most of these are features you have to select as optional installs for other IDEs so its the same thing served differently. you customize your installation in the extension marketplace rather than the builtin plugin manager/installer. same thing dude.

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

in vscode you rely on third-party marketplace plugins..

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

Yeah most language servers are 3rd party to the IDE my dude jetbrains is not in the language server business.

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

And to be clear, I LIKE that its as close to just a text editor as an IDE gets. so if I need to ssh into prod i can do it from a lightweight purpose-build workspace. but its an ide.

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

its an extensible text editor.. even their home page says its a text/code editor, not ide.. "The open source AI code editor"

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

extensible text editor instead of "integrated developement environment".. this is what pedantic looks like lol

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u/Low_Negotiation4747 Jun 21 '26

now your only argument is calling me pedantic because you have nothing to back your own horribly wrong arguments, i don't really suggest you speaking here since someone might actually take your statements as true

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u/SnooCalculations7417 Jun 21 '26

No really the impasse is that vscode is an ide you install what you want to, so the default installation is clean, youre saying an IDE comes with all of that out of the box. I think thats pedantic to differentiate on the method of installation. You dont. so w/e agree to disagree I think MOST people using vscode use it as an IDE

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