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by falcor84 2051 days ago
Well, one good reason is that unlike VS Code, Pycharm is not open source.
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duckerude 2051 days ago
The community edition is (Apache 2): https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...
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falcor84 2051 days ago
Thanks for sharing. This is really cool. And I'm slightly surprised that Pycharm uses the exact same codebase as IntelliJ, just with a different run configuration [0]. It makes perfect sense of course, but I was pleasantly surprised.

[0] `To run PyCharm Community Edition, please use the provided run configuration "PyCharm Community Edition"`

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criddell 2051 days ago
How often have you ever needed the source code for your text editor?
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