[jacquesm]

The hour long startup time was what I had in mind, time is my most precious resource.

The RAM I couldn't care about, that's fairly cheap these days. I haven't a clue what that software does when it starts up but there has to be some way to optimize it.

Intellij is not much better.

[greyfade]

Anything that takes more than a minute to load when my system has a load average of 35 is simply not worth using.

It's why I gave up on Eclipse a while back. (Well, that, and its tendency to crash with out-of-memory exceptions when using the syntax parser set to "full." That was the final straw.)