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Haha, I love the “My IDE is so sluggish, it must be doing important stuff”. It really isn’t. IntelliJ is just horribly laggish. VSCode, an electron (!) app with
by peebeebee 5y ago
Haha, I love the “My IDE is so sluggish, it must be doing important stuff”.
It really isn’t. IntelliJ is just horribly laggish. VSCode, an electron (!) app with 100 plugins isn’t even that slow.
- ratww 5y agoYes. Even if it were doing important stuff, this "important stuff" shouldn't be affecting typing. We have multicore machines now, there's no excuse anymore. Imagine if it were the opposite, and moving the mouse or speaking into a microphone caused the compilation to fail in subtle ways. Well, background compilation/typechecking/whatever is messing with user interaction.
- cornel_io 5y agoI'm not naive, I've actually built IntelliJ plugins. I know engineers that work on the product, and I have an extremely good idea what it's doing under the hood. A lot of it is important to me and doesn't exist in VSCode, though that's also a great product for some languages.