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That joy has subsided in recent years with performance on Mac Intel. [...] This release makes the IDE so incredibly fast! Indexing dependencies happens magnitudes faster than Intel version.

These must be macOS issues or problems with the limited thermal envelopes ofIntel Macs. I have noticed the same issue with my Intel MacBooks, it's slow and the fans spin loudly.

I never had that issue on Linux with a Ryzen CPU (3700X) though. The JetBrains IDEs are lightning-fast, including indexing. My only gripe is that they do not have native Wayland support and as a result the IDEs are blurry with GNOME fractional scaling.

There are some issues about this in their bug tracker, but the JetBrains personnel either do not seem to understand how the Linux graphics stack works (and come with non-solutions) or say that it is low on their priority list.

I have a ToolBox subscription (among other reasons because IntelliJ is still the best Java IDE). But with the progress that Visual Studio Code makes with e.g. Rust support and JetBrains' slow progress on many issues, I will probably switch to VS Code at some point.

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Just to echo that going to Ryzen made a world of difference. I had a big jump from some intel APU part to the 5600x - makes jetbrains much more pleasant.

I'm not planning on switching back over, but others in the family are and Jetbrains packages were always clearly "slow" so speed of the chips actually made a difference to my eyes.