Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?
17 jmward01 7 8/25/2025, 3:38:38 AM
I was just using PyCharm, which I have paid for and used for many years now, and and an ad for their 'Cadence' product came up in the IDE as a notification. I have now canceled my subscription and am looking for a good alternative. The majority of work I do is with python and I'm looking for solid step trace debugging and something that integrates reasonably well with Claude Code and other tools like it. Above all else though I am looking for something that won't advertise to me. I am willing to pay, I like supporting software I use, so what should I be looking for in the age of Claude code, Windsurf and the like?
The problem with other editors is the lack of good and fast lsp. Pycharm’s lsp is so head of everyone.
In VS Code and other editors the lsp for Python is written in JavaScript which is hilarious.
I paid for the all products pack for nearly ten years. I gave up a while ago and I'm just stuck using my fallback licenses for the 2024.1 builds, which are IMO the last usable versions.