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by shannah78 1576 days ago
I can't disagree with anything you say here, except the thing about "the article seems quite off". lol.

This piece covers the state of the technology at that time. In the early 2000's Java was slow. I wasn't familiar with IntelliJ at that time, so can't comment on their performance then. I wouldn't expect it to be dramatically better than other Java apps on the market at that time.

Moore's law has steadily changed the landscape. So have improvements in JIT technology.