5 ms·
For the most part I agree with you but "miles away of any JS apps" is a low bar to cross.
by sebzim4500 3y ago
For the most part I agree with you but "miles away of any JS apps" is a low bar to cross.
- akkad33 3y agoI use vs code and jet brains intellij. Vscode is by miles more stable and light weight for running a java spring app. Of course intellij runs a lot of stuff but the experience is not better for it. Intellij feels like a sloth next to vscode
- pcl 3y agoMake sure you’ve got your IJ memory settings tuned right. I assign 8GB rather than the default (2?). Also, if you’re on a Mac — there’s an Apple Silicon build that is noticeably better.
- nickelpro 3y ago> I assign 8GB rather than the default This is not a good argument in a thread where the central claim is that VSC is a resource hog but other IDEs aren't
- uoaei 3y agoYeah this sounds like a misconfiguration. We've already forgotten that native apps tend to require a bit more fine control on how they use resources, all in the name of the cult of portability.
- akkad33 3y agoHow do I configure it right? One good thing about vs code is it works well out of the box with almost zero custom configuration
- marginalia_nu 3y agoIntelliJ is not very fast by any benchmark. I mean it's based on Swing! There's a pronounced multi-frame pause between right clicking and seeing a context menu. C++ based editors like Kate blow both VSC and IJ out of the water. Runs so fast it feels janky, like the computer isn't doing anything.
- akkad33 3y agoI haven't heard of Kate. I'll try it out
- marginalia_nu 3y agoIt's from the KDE project, and while it's portable, but I can't speak for how well it looks on other platforms.
- troupo 3y agoIntelliJ has a lot of legacy code, including custom re-implementation of all things UI. And it offers vastly more features than VS Code.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agoIt also does maybe a quarter of what IDEA can do. Let's see how it performs when it catches up to what IDEA does right now (maybe in another ten years).
- akkad33 3y agoIt does everything I need to run to do my job. If intellij is doing more stuff that is slowing it down then maybe they can find a better performance-feature trade off by getting rid of the bloat
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agoIt would turn into another run of the mill text editor like VSCode then, and would lose most of its users.
- akkad33 3y agoVs code is not a run of the mill editor though. It can be configured to support all useful features of intellij. Even then it's faster than intellij
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- mrweasel 3y agoWhy is it that VSCode is the only good Electron app? I get that Microsoft have talented developers, but so does other companies, yet VSCode remain the single application that shows that Electron apps can work.
- CharlesW 3y agoAlso, Figma.
- pcthrowaway 3y agoObsidian also
- esafak 3y agoI think WebAssembly might play a role there. https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1410714002456383490 https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1410714002456383490
- sirwhinesalot 3y agoEven though it is based on web tech and Electron, VSCode cares about performance, while garbage like Microsoft Teams does not. That's about it.
- IceSentry 3y agoI use discord and gitkraken every day and I've never had any issues either. People just like to complain. They act as if using a few hundred megabytes for the main app you are using is an issue. It's not the 90s anymore ram is cheap, especially at those amount.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agoOr maybe you're just fine with throwing away thousands of dollars at it every few years, so you're not seeing the problem. The "solution" that most of the world simply cannot afford.