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Yeah, but there's more to Java than the language. Compare to one of their primary competitors, Visual Studio. VS is still struggling with the transition to 64

Yeah, but there's more to Java than the language. Compare to one of their primary competitors, Visual Studio. VS is still struggling with the transition to 64 bits because they can't take the plugins with them. It essentially can't be made cross platform with the result that they gave up and started a rewrite (VS Code). Despite Microsoft having vastly more resources than JetBrains, IntelliJ seems to have more features. I credit a lot of that to the underlying platform being higher level and more productive.

jermaustin1 9y ago
VS Code isn't a rewrite of Visual Studio, it is just a text editor with support for plugins. Visual Studio isn't 64-bit for performance reasons. They have decided instead to take components that are most constrained by the 32bit limitation and move them out of processes, leaving the core application 32bit [1]. 1: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/2255687-make-vs-scalable-by-switching-to-64-bit?page=1&per_page=20 https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...