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by akkad33 1100 days ago
I use vs code and jet brains intellij. Vscode is by miles more stable and light weight for running a java spring app. Of course intellij runs a lot of stuff but the experience is not better for it. Intellij feels like a sloth next to vscode
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marginalia_nu 1100 days ago
IntelliJ is not very fast by any benchmark. I mean it's based on Swing! There's a pronounced multi-frame pause between right clicking and seeing a context menu.

C++ based editors like Kate blow both VSC and IJ out of the water. Runs so fast it feels janky, like the computer isn't doing anything.

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akkad33 1099 days ago
I haven't heard of Kate. I'll try it out
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marginalia_nu 1099 days ago
It's from the KDE project, and while it's portable, but I can't speak for how well it looks on other platforms.
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5e92cb50239222b 1100 days ago
It also does maybe a quarter of what IDEA can do. Let's see how it performs when it catches up to what IDEA does right now (maybe in another ten years).
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akkad33 1099 days ago
It does everything I need to run to do my job. If intellij is doing more stuff that is slowing it down then maybe they can find a better performance-feature trade off by getting rid of the bloat
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5e92cb50239222b 1099 days ago
It would turn into another run of the mill text editor like VSCode then, and would lose most of its users.
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akkad33 1099 days ago
Vs code is not a run of the mill editor though. It can be configured to support all useful features of intellij. Even then it's faster than intellij
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uoaei 1100 days ago
Yeah this sounds like a misconfiguration. We've already forgotten that native apps tend to require a bit more fine control on how they use resources, all in the name of the cult of portability.
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akkad33 1099 days ago
How do I configure it right? One good thing about vs code is it works well out of the box with almost zero custom configuration
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troupo 1100 days ago
IntelliJ has a lot of legacy code, including custom re-implementation of all things UI.

And it offers vastly more features than VS Code.

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pcl 1100 days ago
Make sure you’ve got your IJ memory settings tuned right. I assign 8GB rather than the default (2?).

Also, if you’re on a Mac — there’s an Apple Silicon build that is noticeably better.

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nickelpro 1100 days ago
> I assign 8GB rather than the default

This is not a good argument in a thread where the central claim is that VSC is a resource hog but other IDEs aren't

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