Microsoft Visual Studio Code vs. PyCharm

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

908 Reviews and Ratings

PyCharm

215 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.	$0
PyCharm	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	PyCharm is an extensive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python developers. Its arsenal includes intelligent code completion, error detection, and rapid problem-solving features, all of which aim to bolster efficiency. The product supports programmers in composing orderly and maintainable code by offering PEP8 checks, testing assistance, intelligent refactorings, and inspections. Moreover, it caters to web development frameworks like Django and Flask by providing framework…	$9.90 per month per user

Pricing

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

PyCharm

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For Individuals: $99
per year per user
All Products Pack for Organizations: $249
per year per user
All Products Pack for Individuals: $289
per year per user
For Organizations: $779
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Visual Studio Code	PyCharm
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	PyCharm
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Bimal Subedi Software Engineer in Information Technology at VSARV (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a combined form of the above-mentioned products i.e. one product, many applications. Eclipse is suitable for java development, PyCharm is mainly for Python development whereas Android Studio is for Android applications development but in … Incentivized Helpful? Tao Mihiranga Graphic Designer and Web Developer in Information Technology at codeclaro (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft VS Code is extremely customizable with needs. So, features like syntax highlighting, bracket-matching, auto-indentation, well-integrated terminal, and side-by-side editing are powerful. Even these features are given free with Microsoft VS code. PyCharm and WebStorm … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I have been using Vim as both editor and IDE for development projects for a long time until I met Visual Studio Code. VS Code can provide the editing power of Vim through a plugin, plus many other benefits, thus it can easily replace Vim in most development use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code While Sublime Text, another free alternative, is faster and snappier than Code, the extensions that are available on it are sub-par (it doesn't even have an official extension store). This makes using it for any serious work unpleasant, at least to me. IntelliJ's dedicated IDEs … Incentivized Helpful? Aaron Pace Managing Director in Information Technology at Insytes, LLC (Management Consulting, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Since moving away from VB6, Visual Studio has been my primary IDE of choice. I used PyCharm a little bit but found the platform too difficult to figure out (I'm a pretty simple person). Visual Studio Code crossed my radar only a few months ago, coincident to learning Python, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Far better than Eclipse IDE. Eclipse takes so much space, and it is slow. Whereas Vs Code IDE is so fast and having good UI as compared to Eclipse. I help to work efficiently and is also highlight the syntax in good way by recommending in editor. Microsoft Visual Studio Code … Incentivized Helpful? Apurv Doshi Senior Solutions Architect at Infostretch (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I think VS Code is much better as compared to all the tools mentioned above. Just waiting for its support for iOS and Android development. currently, it misses support for them. That's where you will require Xcode and Android Studio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Every IDE has almost the same features but being lightweight is a plus point for the IDE so that you can run on any hardware with good speed. VS Code has ultimate features. Incentivized Helpful? Hareesh Madasi Associate Engineer at TEK Systems (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code I found it very easy and a far better way to run the code and test as it will reflect the changes just by saving the code. We can run the commands required directly here. And we can push the code to GitHub or any source version controllers or even clone from the server. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Gockley, MBA, MCSA DBA / Sr. Data Analyst in Information Technology at Boostability (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code Honestly we only vetted Visual Studio code against Visual Studio and it gives us everything we need and then some. There are options out there but for us, to be able to have a fully integrated environment that allows us to move from one team to the other with little to no … Incentivized Helpful?	JetBrains Abhijith P Automation Engineer in Information Technology at Quadance Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose PyCharm For dedicated python projects, I don't need any other IDE than Pycharm becaus of its perfect UI, suggestions and plugins for PYthon. For other code or small scripts I would go with vs code. Incentivized Helpful? Nir Levy VP R&D DevOps and Products in Engineering at Zoomd Technologies (Information Technology Services, 51-200 employees) Chose PyCharm I feel PyCharm is better fit for Python web development as it's a full platform that is designed by developers for developers. While vscode is free and does basically the same things, I always feel that it's less robust. Also, while I enjoy Vim as a simple text editor, I prefer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PyCharm It is more complete and can handle more projects at the same time. On the other hand, Visual Studio Code has better integration with LMS to help you code. PyCharm allows you to integrate with many external tools and external servers that Visual Studio Code has difficulties with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PyCharm PyCharm is the best IDE for python development. PyCharm offers various features: source code completion, support for unit testing, integration with Docker/GitLab/Git, ability to manage and configure virtual environments, auto-indentation, and re-factoring code with ease. … Incentivized Helpful? Avinash Saklani Frontend Developer in Information Technology at Fiverr (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose PyCharm First of all, PyCharm is easy to install for beginners whose parent organization is JetBrains. It can be installed on any operating system with ease. It provides Python Django Framework for FrontEnd Developers which others do not provide. The UI is also simpler as compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Warren Back End Developer in Information Technology at Strata (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose PyCharm PyCharm provided a more focused environment where it was much clearer how the different components of software development workflow came together. I have much more limited experience with Visual Studio Code and Atom, but found those environments to be more confusing, as they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PyCharm I've used Sublime, VSCode, Wing IDE, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, WebStorm. For Java development, Intellij is best - being built by the same company as PyCharm it provides a helpful familiarity. The same can be said for WebStorm, although more lightweight IDEs are usually … Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer in Engineering at Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees) Chose PyCharm Simply one of the best IDE's of our time. It has a lot of features, a big user base, and a professional developer team behind it. It simply surpasses most of its competitors, as there are not too many Python-specialized IDEs anyway. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose PyCharm I've used IntelliJ with Python extensions in past for working in Python but it's not best suited for that it doesn't give all the flexibility for Python projects like auto-indentation for Python code. Its paid version is a bit cheaper than IntelliJ. PyCharm offers integration … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Visual Studio Code	PyCharm
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (90 ratings)	8.7 (41 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (2 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (7 ratings)	8.7 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (23 ratings)	8.3 (13 ratings)