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I'm not sure what better to call it. Charm++ (its core) was around ruining the lives of chemistry grad students and their sysadmins long, long before pycharm was a twinkle in its creators' eyes. I'm sure jetbrains won't be coming for it any time soon.

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Charmer? CharmIt? Charming? CharmHPD? Charmplus? Superintendentchalmers? The problem here isn't that PyCharm came second or that Jetbrains will have an issue. The problem here is that it's so many conversations will go

> Have you used CharmPy?

> You mean PyCharm?

> No, CharmPy!

> Are we talking about the same thing?

> No

> Oh, that's just confusing, then.

I dunno, maybe. They're so completely different that it seems extremely unlikely to me that anyone will confuse the two in a conversation with any context whatsoever. The conversation you made up would almost certainly start with a discussion about scientific parallel programming. Any discussion I've ever had about charm++ (too many, I'm afraid) wouldn't have been confused for a discussion about an IDE.

Either way, it's done.

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