Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by infinityplus1 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:07PM (#23470303)

Probably Sublime text. It's just too fast and I can't switch to anything else. I open heavier ones like Eclipse, VS Code etc. only when I need to refactor.

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by rckoepke on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:15PM (#23471564)

I notice the same thing, and I enjoy IntelliJ / Sublime / Vim. IntelliJ often feels sluggish.

Maybe this could help: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-la...

Here was a 3rd party analysis from 2015, showing a reduction in latency when editing XML files in IntelliJ IDEA from ~70ms with large jitter to 1.7ms with small jitter: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#summary

I wonder if it's turned on by default today, 5 years later.

Some other techniques: https://medium.com/@sergio.igwt/boosting-performance-of-inte...

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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by gwittel on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:52PM (#23472321)

Seems like the IntelliJ zero latency typing is on by default since ~2017 releases.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/12/intellij-idea-2017-1...

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2017/01/clion-starts-2017-1...

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