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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by 29athrowaway on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:31PM (#25001660)
My IntelliJ tips:

- exclude folders from indexing

- disable unused plugins

- install a theme like Nord

- setup debugging

- make sure you can run unit tests from the IDE

- add JSdoc tags so that IntelliJ can detect type mismatches.

- setup scopes in your project view to show only the files that you are working on.

And these are my personal preferences:

- Disable smooth scrolling

- Disable animations

- Disable code folding

- Hide status bar, navigation bar, toolbar. If you need something use the actions menu... Ctrl (or Cmd) Shift A.

My font settings: Monoid size 14, line spacing 1.5, greyscale antialiasing.

And check out distraction free mode + full screen

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by Ajnasz on Friday November 06, 2020 @05:47AM (#25006656)
> - add JSdoc tags so that IntelliJ can detect type mismatches.

Yes, it's so awesome when colleagues writing lots of useless stuff into the code so they IDE can show some fancy popups here and there.

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by 29athrowaway on Sunday November 15, 2020 @03:05AM (#25099234)
Yeah, truly useless... I mean, why would you spend $0.0001 dollars in computing power to verify all types in your program if you can spend orders of magnitude more money to have a human do it by hand orders of magnitude slower and less reliably?

Nobody has money for that. Just add the type annotation and let the stupid computer do it, which is what people have been doing for decades anyways.

It seems you have totally forgotten what computers are for. You have much to learn, young padawan.