<story><title>Advent of Code Surveys: Results</title><url>https://jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-code-surveys/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petargyurov</author><text>Interesting to see VS Code gain more users each year whilst other popular editors&amp;#x2F;IDEs lose users.&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more&amp;#x2F;less devs of each &amp;quot;group&amp;quot; are deciding to participate.&lt;p&gt;Side note; I decided to move from PyCharm to VSCode and honestly, I am starting to miss PyCharm. Yes, it&amp;#x27;s sluggish to boot but it handles Python so much better: better inspection, highlighting, better Git integration (3-way merge!) and better tooling all round.&lt;p&gt;I find myself having to mess around in VSC&amp;#x27;s settings.json for far too long, scrambling to find the relevant extensions documentation because god forbid you include all the keywords somewhere easy to find in the IDE! And to top it all off, there&amp;#x27;s currently some annoying bugs with error highlighting in VSC that make it a pain to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dogsandcats</author><text>&amp;gt; Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more&amp;#x2F;less devs of each &amp;quot;group&amp;quot; are deciding to participate.&lt;p&gt;Could be also AOC getting more popular and hitting the developer mainstream more, hence skewing the percentages more in favor of mainstream tools. The absolute number of devs from &amp;quot;fringe&amp;quot; groups might have stayed constant.&lt;p&gt;Though VS Code is also getting quite popular in general, so probably that too. It is quite lightweight, just works and setting up new languages is a matter of a few clicks. Honestly the only reason  I am not using it (other then not trusting or wanting to support Microsoft), is that the VIM emulation does not feel quite right for me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Advent of Code Surveys: Results</title><url>https://jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-code-surveys/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petargyurov</author><text>Interesting to see VS Code gain more users each year whilst other popular editors&amp;#x2F;IDEs lose users.&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more&amp;#x2F;less devs of each &amp;quot;group&amp;quot; are deciding to participate.&lt;p&gt;Side note; I decided to move from PyCharm to VSCode and honestly, I am starting to miss PyCharm. Yes, it&amp;#x27;s sluggish to boot but it handles Python so much better: better inspection, highlighting, better Git integration (3-way merge!) and better tooling all round.&lt;p&gt;I find myself having to mess around in VSC&amp;#x27;s settings.json for far too long, scrambling to find the relevant extensions documentation because god forbid you include all the keywords somewhere easy to find in the IDE! And to top it all off, there&amp;#x27;s currently some annoying bugs with error highlighting in VSC that make it a pain to use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>Or that using an editor instead of an IDE doesn&amp;#x27;t matter as much for these small tasks where everything fit in one file?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a big JetBrains fan, and now use PyCharm at work. But there is something about Python making IDEs not as useful as it is in other languages. Too much magic and weirdness in the language makes it harder for tools to do a good job.</text></comment>