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> JetBrains IDEs are development environments, meant for editing code, in specific primary language. I've used RubyMine and IntelliJ. IntelliJ kept me sane for

> JetBrains IDEs are development environments, meant for editing code, in specific primary language. I've used RubyMine and IntelliJ. IntelliJ kept me sane for the thankfully-short time I worked with Java, and I appreciate it. But I can't get past how SLOW RubyMine is. Even on my $4,000 MBP, it just feels sluggish. Maybe that's because I'm at home on Rails, and I can think faster than the IDE, but there's really not much excuse to my mind for being that slow, especially on top-end hardware. It once helped me debug a plugin of plugin of a gem, and I'll be forever grateful for that, but I keep trying it every so often, and failing to part with my cash for it. I pay a lot for software, in general, but that one's just too steep for my taste, when tools like vim, Sublime, and VS Code exist.

jdrobertso 6y ago
How are you guys all working in one language? I work on a stack that has ruby on rails on the backend, javascript on the frontend, .NET Core apps to do data transformation, and some NodeJS thrown in there, too. I have to switch back and forth between these projects regularly. There is no other tool like VS Code that provides me the flexibility to have snippets and highlighting and the things I need to maintain these projects, while also giving me the flexibility to switch between languages and syntax on the fly without having to wait 20 minutes just for the IDE to load up.
- dfinninger 6y ago
  Huh, I feel the same way about IntelliJ. Java, Python, Go, Terraform, Bazel, all in the same IDE at once. Best in class refactoring for all of them. Handles the monorepo surprisingly well (Bazel is a big help here, too). I had to bump the memory a bit on the IDE, but after hundreds of thousands of lines of code the index gets large. I used to use VSCode heavily... Emacs before that. But now with IntelliJ I don’t really need much else. The plug-in ecosystem is really nice too.

jdrobertso 6y ago

How are you guys all working in one language? I work on a stack that has ruby on rails on the backend, javascript on the frontend, .NET Core apps to do data transformation, and some NodeJS thrown in there, too. I have to switch back and forth between these projects regularly. There is no other tool like VS Code that provides me the flexibility to have snippets and highlighting and the things I need to maintain these projects, while also giving me the flexibility to switch between languages and syntax on the fly without having to wait 20 minutes just for the IDE to load up.

dfinninger 6y ago
Huh, I feel the same way about IntelliJ. Java, Python, Go, Terraform, Bazel, all in the same IDE at once. Best in class refactoring for all of them. Handles the monorepo surprisingly well (Bazel is a big help here, too). I had to bump the memory a bit on the IDE, but after hundreds of thousands of lines of code the index gets large. I used to use VSCode heavily... Emacs before that. But now with IntelliJ I don’t really need much else. The plug-in ecosystem is really nice too.