23gb of ram, modern i7, ssd. I was doing development on Vagrant via VMWare, which slows things down, but not that much. Maybe the deciding factor here is what

23gb of ram, modern i7, ssd. I was doing development on Vagrant via VMWare, which slows things down, but not that much. Maybe the deciding factor here is what we consider to be "instantly" is different. I do most of my work in VIM in a terminal and find most web-based apps[0] unbearably slow. [0]: I'm not saying IntelliJ is web-based. I'm using it as a common metric.