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by markdog12 3326 days ago
I often use WebStorm (Intellij variant), and I am continually annoyed by its inability to keep up with my typing. I do like the IDE, but I do wish it was more responsive. It often feels like a heavyweight, taking long to do any operation, especially starting up.
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I've never seen anything that tried to do intellisense in JavaScript that wasn't slower than molasses. The quickest way for me to get Visual Studio to crash is to open two or three small .js files, watch the memory usage skyrocket, and the editor speed grind to a halt.
Webstorm is significantly better than VS for JS, or at least it was with VS2013.
I use it for dart