P圜harm displays this modal with search results which site over top of the code window.
The find in files search that I use so often is a bit awkward in P圜harm. When I added the greet module and function in P圜harm it was able to detect the missing import statement and recommended adding it. The search results are displayed on the left, and I can click through and view them in the editor pane.Ī strong search, but weak code dependency management and VSCode gets a 4/5 on code management. Especially with a code base that I have inherited, being able to find files anywhere in a project containing a keyword within a project is essential. VSCode was unaware of the new function and I had to manually add the import statement. I created a greet.py module with a function called greet: def greet(name): The real differentiation is in the IDE search functionality and smart code features.įor code management there were 2 areas I focused on:įor each project I added a file with a function definition, then called that function from my main file. You can select function names and quickly navigate to their definitions with both of these tools. Both VSCode and P圜harm have built in file hierarchy displays on the left of the code window (with the default setup) and allow you to create, rename and remove files easily. Making it easy for a developer to navigate a code base. Code ManagementĬode management is an IDEs basic reason for existence. While I was able to create a GitHub Pull Request in P圜harm, I wasn't able to complete and merge it? Still, I am very impressed with P圜harm's Git Integration. P圜harm also supports GitHub 2 factor authentication. There is no need to use the command line or the GitHub Web UI for day to day tasks. P圜harm also supports creating and viewing pull requests from within the IDE. I was easily able to create a local Git repository on my project folder and in GitHub - without using the GitHub UI. It has the basics, and while I don't need to go to command line for simple tasks, I do have to go to the GitHub Web UI, which is even less convenient. These is the Git integration quick actions that VSCode displays for a new project.įor me, VSCode gets a 3/5 on Git integration. Pushing and pulling code changes is all possible from within VSCode.
A pull request has to be started from the GitHub web ui. Publish a branch to the remote (GitHub in my case). You can create branches using “Checkout to…”. Also, the local git remote that VSCode creates is named after the repo and not called ‘origin’ which I find a bit off-putting. I had to log into GitHub to create the repo, then it appeared in my list. Once I was OAuth connected I could only view repos. It doesn’t look like there is a way to create a GitHub repo from VSCode so I had to create it through the GitHub Web UI. Creating my local repo was simple, however connecting to GitHub was much more difficult. VSCode detects if a git repo has been setup for a project and allows you to initialize one. I expect that common actions like creating branches, committing code and managing code on remotes can be done within the IDE. My big measurement criteria for Git integration was to see how much could be done within the tool itself without the need to resort to command line. Both P圜harm Community and VSCode are free, so financials don't enter into the comparison. My Python project is very simple so it would be worth building an in depth project with each of these IDEs.įor this comparison I am using P圜harm Community installed on Ubuntu in a virtual machine and VSCode 1.47.2 on the same virtual machine with the Microsoft Python plugin. My approach to conduct this evaluation was to pick the IDE feature that I use most often and compare the experience between P圜harm and VSCode. Not sure what P圜harm is? Check out this post. In this post I take P圜harm up against Visual Studio Code using the following 7 IDE criteria: While VSCode has some great support for Python coding with the 'Python' plugin by Microsoft, P圜harm is truly designed for Python development and it shows. P圜harm Community edition and Visual Studio Code (VSCode) are both very capable integrated development environments for Python coding.