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I, for one would love to see an M1 chip cripple itself under the memory load of 4 intellij windows and chrome tabs, among other applications.
by devxpy 6y ago
I, for one would love to see an M1 chip cripple itself under the memory load of 4 intellij windows and chrome tabs, among other applications.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThat's my take as well; I have a fairly modern Macbook, it's just fine, it's just that the software I run on it is far from ideal. Intellij has a ton of features but it's pretty heavyweight because of it; I'd like a properly built native IDE with user experience speed at the forefront. That's what I loved about Sublime Text. But I also like an IDE for all the help it gives me, things that the alternative editors don't do yet. I've used VS Code for a while as well, it's faster than Atom at least but it's still web technology which feels like a TON of overhead that no amount of hardware can compensate for. I've heard of Nova, but apparently I installed it and forgot to actually work with the trial so I have no clue how well it works. I also doubt it works for my particular needs, which intellij doesn't have a problem with (old codebase with >10K LOC files of php 5.2 code and tons of bad JS, new codebase with Go and Typescript / React).
- caogecym 6y agoIf you want faster Intellij experience, you can try disable built-in plug-ins and features you don’t need, power saving mode is one quick way to disable heavyweight features.
- devxpy 6y agoThe problem with intellij is the JVM - memory usage is just off the charts. And then combine it with the gradle daemon, and it gets very hairy.