PyCharm’s features are truly god-tier.

Hands down the best code completion and awareness of any plugin on any language I’ve seen, ever. It would, without fail, speedily and correctly pull up the actual methods attached to a Pandas DataFrame, along with their documentation. Worked equally well with any class I wrote, or any library I imported.

Semantic highlighting is awesome, and I miss it in every language I don’t have it in. Legitimately worth every dollar I spent on the licence.

Have used Intellij for java and also noticed that it is the only IDE that will sort the completion menu the way I would expect it to with the methods I would like to use most of the time in the 1st position.

I find WebStorm much more productive than VSCode. Drag and drop files, refactoring actions, extract exports to another file, etc.

I'd like to eventually use VSCode, but so far they just don't have the same refactoring capabilities.

Drag and drop renaming works for me in recent versions of VSCode, and extracting code to another file has been there a while as well.

Can you add details, for which languages and when did you try vscode?

Not OP, but I've had the same experience with Ruby on Rails. I switched to RubyMine last month after using VSCode for 2 months. I don't blame VSCode, Ruby has got to be the hardest language to do static analysis for, but JetBrain's proprietary code inspection and IDE integration blows every other open source solution out of the water.

I mostly code in Python. Debugging on VSCode is a nightmare. Especially if you're debugging large matrices in numpy or PyTorch. VSCode just hangs if you try to evaluate large matrices. PyCharm on the other hand works like a breeze. Not to mention the PyCharm debugger is so much better than VSCode.

I mostly do JavaScript and Go. But also Scala and Python somewhat longer ago.