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JetBrains IDEs do all of that stuff and more in my experience. Visual Studio Code plugins are a pretty basic IDE experience compared to them
by jolux 6y ago
JetBrains IDEs do all of that stuff and more in my experience. Visual Studio Code plugins are a pretty basic IDE experience compared to them
- nicoburns 6y agoThis is definitely true. The tradeoff being that JetBrains IDEs are much slower (particularly to startup), much more resource intensive, and of course more expensive.
- jolux 6y agoStartup time is bad, yes, but I think it’s a reasonable trade off for the features I get and plus I tend to launch it once and then open files with the command line tools, which is basically instant. Granted I’m spoiled on my personal machine with a six core i7, 16GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD.
- nicoburns 6y ago> Granted I’m spoiled on my personal machine with a six core i7, 16GB RAM, and an NVMe SSD. I think this makes a big difference. I also have 16GB RAM and a fast SSD, but I'm on a 2-core MacBook processor. I find that with all of the various different projects I have to interact with in a day (I'm the tech lead at my company) I can't leave an IntelliJ-based IDE open without it slowing the rest of computer down to the point that it's impacting my productivity.
- simion314 6y agoI bet VS Code will be as slow if it could have the same features.
- nicoburns 6y agoWell probably. That's why people accept fewer features in return for the speed.
- nullsense 6y agoWhat % of your work day is spent starting up projects?