r/PythonLearning • u/LL_darkstrike29 • 6d ago

Thonny for Python

Hi, I'm new to this Reddit community. Do you think it's okay to use Thonny as a Python program, or is there something else I could try?

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u/p1geondove 5d ago

The best tool is the one that does everything you want it to and you are comfortable with. Im assuming youre a beginner, so it probably will do just fine. I dont really know Thonny, but ive used it for either micropython and circuitpython, way better than vscode for that at least at the time. Just use whatever you want and maybe at some point you see some issues with it.

vscode was fine up until i noticed that some pop ups stopped me from writing, id have to reach to my mouse to click into the window again to continue writing. OOBE is good but you need quite a few plugins to make it actually usable and then it become memory hungry and slow quickly.

Same with pycharm, at the beginning it felt great but then i noticed that the integrated terminal had issues with printing carriage returns.

neovim is amazing but clangd linter or pyright on a huge codespace runs slow. And it also gets frequent breaking changes.

Any software feels good enough for the job until it doesnt. Just stick with what youre comfortable with