And as you might guess, there is a reason that a company like JetBrains (sells the P圜harm IDE) is still in business-developers love great tools because great tools save TONS of time. A terminal-based text editor like Vim is open-source and free forever while an IDE such as P圜harm may come at a hefty price tag. The differences you'll find between them are the feature sets, and in some cases, pricing. While you may not recognize all of these, they all do the same fundamental thing, which is to allow the developer to write code. Integrated Development Environments, or 'IDEs' (Visual Studio, P圜harm, Eclipse, NetBeans).Code Editors (Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime Text).

Terminal based text editor (Vim, Emacs, Nano).OS-based text editor (Microsoft has Notepad, Mac has TextEdit).While others may disagree with this classification, here are four places that you might write code in order of least to most features. To the beginner, this topic may sound intimidating, so let's start by looking at the entire landscape of code editors. So you're learning to code, but there are so many choices as to where you are actually writing that code.

Pycharm vs notepad++ vs sublime text