Do IDEs by JETBRAINS use the same core?
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I have been using Intellij for some while and was downloading PyCharm today and I realized from the looks at it, the core was pretty much the same. Now obviously there are things like code highlighting compiling, etc that not the same IDE will do, but can't you'll have the same IDE and have subscription based languages.
Is there a reason why I have to download the complete IDE again, instead of just the python package(or the complete core is different)
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Yes PyCharm (as well as other smaller IDEs) is based on IntelliJ platform. PyCharm provides the same feature set for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition via the installing Python plugin.
PyCharm IDE is more lightweight and is designed specifically for Python developers, i.e. it has features only needed for Python-related frameworks.
See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/13829907/2000323.