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Speed? Resource consciousness? Ability to work on older hardware? Ability to work in a terminal? Nock Vim's hacky syntax highlighting all you want, but people

• efuquen 13y ago
  > Speed? Aside from startup speed Intellij is pretty fast, I would like to know what speed issues you might be talking about? This isn't a buggy piece of mess like eclipse. > Resource consciousness? Ability to work on older hardware? Ability to work in a terminal? You're right, vim has Intellij beat on all these things. But let's be real here, what platform are you doing heavy duty development on? I'm going to guess it's not a resource constrained, esoteric piece of hardware that only has terminal access. Don't get me wrong, I think you should be proficient with a terminal based text editor to be able to do in place edits over ssh, but seriously, that's not where you're doing most of your development work. At least I hope not. This is also from a huge vim fan, I love it and I've used it for primary development when suitable IDE environments didn't exist (in the past Scala, recently hacking around with clojure and playing with Rust). But when you've got a mature IDE environment that isn't buggy, fast, and not resource intensive enough to make a big different on your development environment, it's a no brainer in my book. Plus the VIM plugin for Intellij is pretty good ;-)