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> For me, the competing product is vim. This sounds like a troll. I would expect that the guys at Jetbrains get screamed at quite often for their IDE's memory

by xgbi 10y ago

> For me, the competing product is vim. This sounds like a troll. I would expect that the guys at Jetbrains get screamed at quite often for their IDE's memory and CPU consumption (they even have a "low power" mode, which is quite telling). But on the other hand, users (I am in that group) of Jetbrains IDEs are there for the sheer awesomeness of their inspections and refactoring abilities. UI perfs notwithstanding, they have the best tools out there. So you comparing their product to Vim shows how trollish (or really badly constructed) your argument is. You can't compare the two of them seriously, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Jetbrains team simply glanced at your email and classified it as "troll" or "don't bother with extremists".

Noseshine 10y ago
The "low power" mode is for stopping running the many inspections on the code continuously while you are typing. That's hundreds of code checks and often an external code check tool as well (eslint in my case). Obviously, running all those extra tools while typing uses quite a bit of extra power. It has nothing to do with "this IDE is fat" (it is, but that's a separate issue), but with the amount of features run continuously. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725605/what-is-power-save-mode-in-intellij-idea-and-other-jetbrains-ides http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725605/what-is-power-sa...
grizzles 10y ago
I didn't compare it to vim to them. The reason I mentioned vim above was because of nhumrich's inference that I was "threatening them", which was totally false. In my message, I was very polite and constructive. My point was based on the business case for fixing something that inconveniences the customer so much. I didn't realize that I walked on such sacred ground when I tried to improve the product that you seem to love so much. I'm still not sure why it needs to block me from editing some files while I have to wait 5+ minutes while it does an unrelated update. If that's extremist then so be it.

by xgbi 10y ago

Noseshine 10y ago

The "low power" mode is for stopping running the many inspections on the code continuously while you are typing. That's hundreds of code checks and often an external code check tool as well (eslint in my case). Obviously, running all those extra tools while typing uses quite a bit of extra power. It has nothing to do with "this IDE is fat" (it is, but that's a separate issue), but with the amount of features run continuously. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725605/what-is-power-save-mode-in-intellij-idea-and-other-jetbrains-ides http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725605/what-is-power-sa...

grizzles 10y ago

I didn't compare it to vim to them. The reason I mentioned vim above was because of nhumrich's inference that I was "threatening them", which was totally false. In my message, I was very polite and constructive. My point was based on the business case for fixing something that inconveniences the customer so much. I didn't realize that I walked on such sacred ground when I tried to improve the product that you seem to love so much. I'm still not sure why it needs to block me from editing some files while I have to wait 5+ minutes while it does an unrelated update. If that's extremist then so be it.