Switched from a code editor to an IDE after fighting with plugins for 2 weeks

I was dead set on using VS Code for my first Python project cause everyone online hypes it up. Spent like 10 hours trying to get extensions to work for debugging and linting and it was a nightmare. My buddy Alex finally made me try PyCharm and it just worked out of the box with everything I needed. Has anyone else had that moment where you just give up on one tool for something simpler?

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jamiew531d ago

Same thing happened to me with JavaScript... wasted a weekend getting ESLint to not break then switched to WebStorm and never looked back. Sometimes just paying for something that works is worth the sanity.

the_emery1d ago

dude, this is so real. I spent three days once trying to get Prettier to play nice with my Sublime Text setup and finally just gave up and started typing everything by hand. Ended up switching to VS Code and it was like night and day, even though I still have no idea what half the settings do. Honestly, some of those free tools feel like they're designed to make you feel stupid for not just paying.

morgan8981d ago

100% agreed lol. Spent a whole Sunday fighting with config files and ended up paying for a plugin that just worked out of the box.