Re:A Picture of Java in 2020
by nicoburns on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:33PM
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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.
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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.