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by vbsteven 2171 days ago
No argument against the one code file thing because I think it’s a great idea. But a quick comment on the JetBrains suite:

With the right plugins Intellij Ultimate is also for everything (just like Vim uses language plugins) and then you get all the benefits of the modern IDE. Intellisense, search, replace, refactor, find usage, type inference, etc

I’m not saying vim cannot do this but Intellij is now my preference for everything and I don’t feel the need for merging everything in one file for analysis because I can jump around to definitions/usages easily.
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sillysaurusx 2171 days ago
Yeah, that's valid. `idea .` seemed to work occasionally back when I tried. But what I ran into was, you often want to install specific plugins for JS, and specific plugins for Python, etc. On my laptop, the result was that IDEA started taking like ... 4 minutes to fully load a codebase. So I just gave up.

But IntelliJ is wonderful in general. Maybe others will have more luck.

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