Re:A Picture of Java in 2020
by jolux on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:52AM
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JetBrains IDEs do all of that stuff and more in my experience. Visual Studio Code plugins are a pretty basic IDE experience compared to them
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This is definitely true. The tradeoff being that JetBrains IDEs are much slower (particularly to startup), much more resource intensive, and of course more expensive.
Startup time is bad, yes, but I think it’s a reasonable trade off for the features I get and plus I tend to launch it once and then open files with the command line tools, which is basically instant. Granted I’m spoiled on my personal machine with a six core i7, 16GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD.
> Granted I’m spoiled on my personal machine with a six core i7, 16GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD.
I think this makes a big difference. I also have 16GB RAM and a fast SSD, but I'm on a 2-core MacBook processor. I find that with all of the various different projects I have to interact with in a day (I'm the tech lead at my company) I can't leave an IntelliJ-based IDE open without it slowing the rest of computer down to the point that it's impacting my productivity.
I bet VS Code will be as slow if it could have the same features.
Well probably. That's why people accept fewer features in return for the speed.