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by champagnepapi 1018 days ago
I have the JetBrains Toolbox with the “All Products Pack” and it works like a charm! The JetBrains products are far superior to other products I’ve tried. I mostly used Pycharm, Datagrip, CLion, and Goland and love them. Couldn’t imagine dev without them
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I switched to Pycharm Professional a couple of years ago (VS Code before, vim before that) and I can echo this sentiment, it's very good and well worth my money.

An unexpected, charm, if you will, was that it can also replace DBeaver for me. I work a lot with data and a good database interface is worth its weight in gold, that's a major plus for the Jetbrains suite as far as I'm concerned.

A few downsides are the memory usage, the fact that the default editor isn't very ergonomic (easily solved for me thanks to the Vim plugin, but default vs. default VS Code is much better IMO), and the lack of remote capabilities (edit files on a remote machine with your local instance, VS Code is still much better).

Many have criticized the "new UI" but to be honest I don't care much either way, it's just cosmetics.

Clion doesn’t have Scons support still: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-1102 9 years!
This is my primary gripe with what is otherwise a solid company with solid products: glacial pace of improvements and bug fixes. They are spending tons of developer time on a GUI rework nobody asked for while actual usability warts like:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-9302

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226503/It-is-not-c...

…languish for years. Just about every Python project I have worked on has a number of bogus warnings (that is, the code that triggers the warning is correct and the warning objectively does not apply), and my last experience trying to report a problem with their inspections system put me off ever wasting the time to do it again.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RUBY-15612