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by jabzd 3492 days ago
Totally agreed on the value-add for those languages. We'll probably keep one license around for the times we drop into Java for Android which is fairly infrequent. Otherwise, we're a mix of JS (NodeJs/React/Appcelerator/etc), Ruby (via Puppet), HTML/CSS, PHP, Python, etc. IntelliJ was overkill in the first place but the one IDE to rule them all is just too compelling to not give it ago. Worked for 2 years, the product has just gotten too slow now.

My gut reaction is that IntelliJ's indexing isn't yet properly optimized for the small-file dependency-hell that JS dev has turned into.

The unfortunate thing was that we were willing to upgrade to the newest Macbooks if they had 32GB of RAM and hope that helped (in addition to some VM woes for working on infrastructure) - probably would have kept IntelliJ in play but the swapping and it using 33% of RAM on our machines made it an easy target to try to replace.

In comparison, VSCode is using 70MB RAM on my machine currently with 6 projects open.
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rootlocus 3492 days ago
> we were willing to upgrade to the newest Macbooks if they had 32GB of RAM

Any specific reasons why you're not considering PCs and linux?

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jabzd 3492 days ago
90% iOS app development, 10% familiarity.

We're a small shop so we have one team that does everything so one machine for all contexts is starting to be a pain. We did at least dust off some mac minis to do puppet (lots of virtual machines) work on those when possible to free up some RAM on our app dev machines.

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