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The only reason I use VS Code is when I want to quickly check a file or create a PoC. PyCharm or CLion are just too slow and frustrating, but for bigger project
by varispeed 6y ago
The only reason I use VS Code is when I want to quickly check a file or create a PoC. PyCharm or CLion are just too slow and frustrating, but for bigger projects there is no better option than those, despite being awfully slow.
- danieldk 6y agoOn what platform are you using these IDEs? I use CLion daily and it is very fast on my Linux machine with a Ryzen 3700X CPU. (I have heard complaints that the JetBrains IDEs are much slower on Macs, which also corresponds with my limited experience of using their IDEs on a Mac.)
- closeparen 6y agoI think it’s less about the platform and more about the size of the code to index. Text editors are about as fast in a repo with 30,000 files as in a repo with 3. IDEs can take a few minutes to do the indexing necessary to support their code intelligence on bigger repos.
- spockz 6y agoI never really realised this, but IntelliJ feels almost instant on my fedora workstation whereas there is a certain sluggishness on Mac in the ui. Resizing panels, context menus, the terminals.
- tekknik 6y agoThere’s more too bootstrap so the IDE is slower. Plus setting the project up properly and so on. It’s not as simple as typing ‘$ code <dir>‘ and starting to write as the editor pops up instantly. People’s definition of fast and instant are different. There’s absolutely no way an IDE can start faster than a text editor, otherwise text editors wouldn’t exist.