Re:Sublime Text 4 [video]
by psychometry on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:38AM
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Jetbrains is extremely fast for me these days because the indexing is good. The fact that the IDE and Java are using 1-2 GBs RAM isn't really a problem when any dev machine is going to have at least 8 GBs.
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Re:Sublime Text 4 [video]
by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @12:24PM
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That's surprising. I used IntelliJ today after a pause and found it unbearably slow. For instance, scrolling a ~6 page source file lags so much it's extremely irritating.
It's also fantastically bloated. There's so much stuff I have to disable to make it barely usable. And most of the supposedly helpful lightbulbs suggest changes that make absolutely no sense.
I can absolutely believe that IntelliJ has its fans because it has a ton of features, but for me it's just unusable.
Re:Sublime Text 4 [video]
by benbristow on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @01:18PM
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8GB is low for a dev machine nowadays. Your browser uses 1/2GB, IDE using 1/2GB+ (JetBrains Rider often uses like 4GB for me), then the OS itself, database servers, virtualization overhead (e.g. Docker) and other tools. Easily used up.
16GB is the bare minimum for a dev machine in 2021 IMO. Anything higher than that is 'nice to have' unless you're doing heavy stuff like data analysis, machine learning/AI, games development etc.