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Can someone chime in with how Pycharm compares to Komodo Edit - or maybe just if you've had a positive/negative experience with Pycharm?

I'm starting to get a little frustrated with Komodo, and I remember liking a very brief Pycharm demo I tried a few years back, but I'd love to hear an HNer's opinion if you happen to use it day to day.

It seemed to have a pretty good reputation back then, but one of the concerns I had was hearing something on HN about it occasionally "optimizing" or making modifications to your code unilaterally.

Thanks in advance.

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I have used PyCharm daily since its early versions and have been mostly happy with it. When I think about it, it's actually the first IDE for any language I've kept using for longer than a couple of weeks. The best features for me include code navigation, run/test/debug, refactoring, inspections, keyboard-friendliness. It's also got a decent editor and built-in support for Sass and CoffeeScript. Btw, they also provide a free licence for open source development.

> When I think about it, it's actually the first IDE for any language I've kept using for longer than a couple of weeks.

This is exactly what I say when people ask about pyCharm. I think i've tried a dozen IDEs and its the only one I stuck to. I've used it for a couple of years now for django and python development (and they've also just added first-class Flask support), plus I use it for front-end/javascript coding now too, I couldn't live without it now.

Avid PyCharm user and JetBrains supporter here.

Before trying PyCharm and switching basically immediately I was using heavily plugged Vim and Tmux setup.

The main problem I had with the old setup was not Python, actually it was JavaSript editing, since Vim syntax highlighting just breaks down on modern JS.

After I tried out PyCharm I was an instant convert, JS and HTML editors are awersome, Vim integration is awesome and Django and VCS integrations are awesome.

PyCharm made coding fun again for me, its that good.

I've been using PyCharm for almost a year now, for professional development (and some pet projects), and I am very happy with it.

I never had PyCharm making undetected changes to my code.

What about WingIDE? Does it make sense to switch to PyCharm?

IMO not, I personally like WingIDE more but I am using PyCharm on OSX as it is better integrated and has a better virtualenv support. You can always just try PyCharm for free

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