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by dotancohen 2891 days ago
Though PyCharm is a Java application, in my experience it is very well behaved. Not the typical Java resource hog.

Contrast with VSCode, written in Electron. I will admit that VSCode is one of the better Electron apps in regards to keeping the UI snappy, but it still hogs literary GBs of RAM without even having any files open (CentOS desktop). It will consume a full CPU core just sitting there if it is not minimized, I'm told that this is to blink the cursor. VSCode is decent if it is the only app you have open, but it is just too resource intensive in real world computing.
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sandGorgon 2891 days ago
actually your info is very very dated. this was an issue long ago. FYI - I'm based out of India and a lot of interns,etc here can only afford AMD laptops with 4 GB of RAM and HDD. we are not even close to macbook territory here.

We actually moved these kids to vscode first. And then we realized how good vscode's performance really was.

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