Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
by fxtentacle on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:03AM
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That seems odd to me. I basically never close my IDE. Sure, I might put the laptop to sleep in between or disconnect from the remote desktop server, but I rarely need the 500 MB that my IDE consumes, so there's little point in every closing it.
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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
by peelle on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:45PM
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To each their own. It always fascinates me to hear about Java/.NET environments that massive. Do you only work on 1 project for months at a time? Do you not ever need to reboot into another OS? Is your laptop power efficient? Do you have a separate machine just for Gaming?
I mostly program in languages like Ruby & Perl using Vim. Even with my decked out version that has 35 plugins, and some other bells and whistles, I'm on average using 20 MB of RAM. Open/Close is near instantaneous.