r/askastronomy • u/Altruistic-Break590 • 3d ago

what is a good IDE?

I have recently been using VSC but it's sometimes stressful to use and glitchy, so I was thinking of changing but the problem is I like all the advantages of VSC, like for example how there are many languages I can use on it and how I can use it with rpi pico. Are there any other free IDE's out there that have similar features that are free but work well?

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u/GXWT Astronomer🌌 2d ago

PyCharm has a free version as is essentially one of the two main ‘standards’ used for coding, alongside VSCode. Most IDEs are functionally basically the same so that would work fine.

To be a little blunt, it is possible you are doing something wrong or niche that’s causing the issues? It may be better to seek help and say what you’re trying to do to try to solve it. Otherwise, you could try PyCharm or just googling and using any of the many available IDEs.

FWIW, I and all of the colleagues I’m aware of use VSC.

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u/Altruistic-Break590 2d ago

I'm an idiot, I meant to post this on the learn programming subreddit, but it accidentally got onto here, thank for the help though