Ooh! I seem to have touched upon a sensitive nerve here. By all means, naysayers, please demonstrate how I'm wrong about JetBrains being slow or a memory hog.

Ooh! I seem to have touched upon a sensitive nerve here. By all means, naysayers, please demonstrate how I'm wrong about JetBrains being slow or a memory hog. Here are some of JetBrain's takes on the subject: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.3/requirements-for-intellij-idea.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.3/requirements-for-... https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-157837 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-157837 https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206999515-PhpStorm-extremely-slow-on-large-source-files https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po... There are plenty more examples on JetBrains' support website regarding the bloated molasses issues, in case you still have doubts.