What is the anaconda plugin for PyCharm?

Question

PyCharm has released a new version with an "Anaconda Plugin". I can't really tell what is this plugin and how you can use it? How is it different than a regular PyCharm where you choose an anaconda environment / package manager?

Also, the plugin homepage link is dead:

(I'm talking about the community edition)

Answer 1

So far I've found only two minor differences between PyCharm and PyCharm for Anaconda. (I'm using the Community Editions with macOS Mojave.)

The Anaconda version

1. offers an additional item in the Tools menu called Install Miniconda 3... (apparently as part of the included "Anaconda Support" plugin, because that menu item goes away if I disable the plugin); and
2. makes Conda the default package manager (see PyCharm Community forum "What's the difference between Pycharm and Pycharm for Anaconda?...").

Curiously, installing the Anaconda version of PyCharm appears to be the only way to get that plugin, because it doesn't show up in PyCharm's "Marketplace" even when I run the regular version. But if you've installed Anaconda (or Miniconda) separately you might have no use for the plugin anyway.