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Back then (10+ years ago?), IDEs were meant to be bloated and slow having convoluted interfaces and I only used it when absolutely necessary (like Eclipse for A
by mekster 6y ago
Back then (10+ years ago?), IDEs were meant to be bloated and slow having convoluted interfaces and I only used it when absolutely necessary (like Eclipse for Android before Android Studio became the default) but my, JetBrains saves me so much sanity, it changed the definition of IDE for me (or rather IDE was meant to be like that). I only used lightweight text editors before then. (Used SublimeText before the switch.)
Great thing about JetBrains is they work out of the box unlike vim where you need to spend a whole month customizing just to get back on working on the project with 20 random plugins out there and it's still probably only 30% as good as JetBrain's.
VSCode is being developed rapidly and I see many good plugins but it's still quite far behind except for the launch speed. At least it could be seen as a competitor to make sure JetBrains will keep innovating and keep the performance of their IDE sane not to lose customers to VSCode.
- blntechie 6y agoVS Code is like 90% good enough for me compared to Eclipse. I was evaluating IDEA and VS Code to switch to and VS Code with its Java extensions was an easy winner considering its launch speed and the responsiveness. IDEA even though tons better than Eclipse still feels clunkier than VS Code.