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There was a time when a Swing application felt heavyweight, but today, it feels extremely lightweight (including JVM startup). (Not IntelliJ, which is horrible

by _pmf_ 5y ago

There was a time when a Swing application felt heavyweight, but today, it feels extremely lightweight (including JVM startup). (Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.)

paulryanrogers 5y ago
> (Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.) Curious, why is IntelliJ so thoroughly bad?
- Aeolun 5y ago
  It’s definitely horribly bad in anything related to loading. I can’t find anything to replace it’s features though.
  - winrid 5y ago
    This. The feature set in their suite of IDEs is amazing. The occasional lag though, man, sometimes I wonder if they actually use their own IDE. I don't think Java is to blame either, I have Java apps with much higher heaps and lower pause times...
    - nottorp 5y ago
      It's kinda fun. By now I'm used to writing Android code with what I write showing up on the screen only every couple seconds. Mind, not all the time, but enough to get used to it.
      - winrid 5y ago
        It seems disabling smooth scrolling helps for some reason.
- bob778 5y ago
  Compared to jedit, stability is a huge issue as IntelliJ seems to take a “move fast” approach which makes each update risky especially given their recent QA issues. IntelliJ also doesn’t scale very well for large code bases due to the number of features it tries to provide. Basic things like project opening can take tens of minutes while jedit takes seconds (if that) as it’s not trying to build a syntax tree at load time.