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> IntelliJ is a great product and I don’t even consider switching to anything else for professional development, where having the greatest laptop and the best t
by tikkabhuna 4y ago
> IntelliJ is a great product and I don’t even consider switching to anything else for professional development, where having the greatest laptop and the best tools possible should be a priority.
The title should really be "My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs for hobby projects".
- deafpolygon 4y agoThat's less click-baity, though.
- throwaway2037 4y agoYes, I agree. And to add my two cents, if you are living in a wealthy country and/or working for an established, stable firm, you should have an IDE with the world's worst case of type 2 diabetes: 8+ CPU cores, 16+GB RAM, PCIe 3.0+ NVMe. (Double is more ideal.) Gluttony! Except as a golf-like sport, I never understand the obsession with "lightweight" development environments. Like Protoss and Zerg, it would be fun to watch eSports-style coding exercises with type 2 diabetes IDE vs vim/emacs + plugins. Example ridiculous exercise: Refactor this bloated enterprisey Java mess to upgrade from Spring Framework version X to Y. Only slighly joking here, but the vim/emacs setup would be smoking at the hood. The IDE would need a few mins of indexing, then off to the races!
- ParetoOptimal 4y ago> Example ridiculous exercise: Refactor this bloated enterprisey Java mess to upgrade from Spring Framework version X to Y. Only slighly joking here, but the vim/emacs setup would be smoking at the hood. The IDE would need a few mins of indexing, then off to the races! It's hard for me to come up with examples where the emacs setup wouldn't already be done in a couple minutes or using grep and a writeable grep buffer.