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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by phplovesong on Thursday March 03, 2022 @02:57AM (#30538340)
On the contrary.

Jetbrains IDE's prove the fact that no matter how much you engineer, a java based desktop application will always be slow and eat huge amounts of resources.

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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by kaba0 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:19AM (#30538517)
I think I have already answered you regarding it, but Jetbrains IDE’s are not resource-hungry because of Java but because they index/cache the code base. You can’t draw meaningful conclusions from that.
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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by neuronic on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:58AM (#30538761)
As opposed to the Electron-based editors which modern web developers use and heat Starbucks with?
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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by danuker on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:05AM (#30538816)
"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by PestoDiRucola on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:55AM (#30539114)
VSCode is Electron-based and it's quite efficient and not such a memory hog.
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