[bulenkov]

IntelliJ start up time is much better now. Take a look on IntelliJ CE (ported to Apple Silicon) vs VS Code (under Rosetta 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erg0Dz0MXww Of course this is unfair comparison, but you can see that the start up isn't slow.

[GrayShade]

That's indeed not a fair comparison. Mozilla reported up to 2x faster performance and 2.5x faster startup time on the M1 port.

[kaszanka]

That copy of VS Code seems to be starting very slowly, even taking the emulation into account. Lots of extensions, maybe?

For reference, it starts in around 3 seconds on my 2013ish laptop. (actually, more like 2014 - Haswell i7)