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IntelliJ tends to eat gigabytes per instance. This is not good enough when you want to have just even 2 projects open... That id's with a tweaked JVM. It along

IntelliJ tends to eat gigabytes per instance. This is not good enough when you want to have just even 2 projects open... That id's with a tweaked JVM. It alongside Java compilation can bring a machine with 10 GB free ram to its knees and end in swap death. I deal daily with the variant called Android Studio. Enough that about 30% I'd the coding has to be done in vim for performance reasons. The only great features are refactoring, advanced syntax highlighting, code completion and advanced search... If someone wrote something that is not a hog and can handle Android flavor of C++ and Java as well I'd switch in a heartbeat. This Xray is not it.

stephenr 9y ago
> IntelliJ tends to eat gigabytes per instance Mine is currently sitting at 1.7GB with 3 projects open, but yes it does use a lot of memory. I never argued that it doesn't, but as you point out: > great features are refactoring, advanced syntax highlighting, code completion and advanced search Syntax highlighting and search are common these days, code completion is in most decent editors/IDE's but the key one is refactoring, and it's associated tools: find usage. I keep trying out KomodoIDE (still not really native, but at least it's not Java) hoping it will be good enough to change to, and it hasn't gotten there yet. > If someone wrote something that is not a hog and can handle Android flavor of C++ and Java as well I'd switch in a heartbeat. The problem for me I think, is language/tool support in general. I generally write in scripting/interpreted languages (although I have written Java for a client) but it could be shell, php, python, ruby, sql, or of course any number of 'data' formats - json, xml, markdown, yaml (if Im feeling masochistic that day).