now just embed neovim and make it awesome.
IdeaVim [0], a free plugin, is the best vim emulator I've ever used.
IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
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Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#22Explain like I'm five: Does this mean that IntelliJ IDEA will get faster?
I can't comment on performance but it definitely allows for easier plugin development. Another thing I think this affects is some things like font rendering (e.g. you can now use ligatures if your font supports them) since they use their own custom JDK.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#23I really like the IntelliJ products (especially PHPStorm with the Symfony2 plugins, PyCharm, etc) but you really need a 'beefy' computer to run it properly. SSDs are a must.
To speed up IntelliJ products, immediately open Settings -> Directories and exclude all unnecessary folders. Otherwise a crawler background process will indexes every file, and it consumes a lot of CPU and IO resources.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
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#25I still can't seem to figure out: can IDEA + plugins = PyCharm & RubyMine & PHPStorm & WebStorm?
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#26I still can't seem to figure out: can IDEA + plugins = PyCharm & RubyMine & PHPStorm & WebStorm?
Kind of. The core functionality is the same but the plugins generally lag behind the functionality of the focused IDEs by around one major release. Additionally there are some general tweaks to the UI such that the overall experience is more streamlined with the focused IDEs.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#27I still can't seem to figure out: can IDEA + plugins = PyCharm & RubyMine & PHPStorm & WebStorm?
Yeah, if you have the ultimate edition, you can get plugins to do pretty much what all their other products do. Except for maybe AppCode.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#28I still can't seem to figure out: can IDEA + plugins = PyCharm & RubyMine & PHPStorm & WebStorm?
It comes about 95% of the way. The plugins usually lag slightly behind the individual IDEs and their are some minor UI tweaks.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#29I really like the IntelliJ products (especially PHPStorm with the Symfony2 plugins, PyCharm, etc) but you really need a 'beefy' computer to run it properly. SSDs are a must.
To speed up IntelliJ products, immediately open Settings -> Directories and exclude all unnecessary folders. Otherwise a crawler background process will indexes every file, and it consumes a lot of CPU and IO resources.
In one extreme example, my project was a scraper that scraped in 80k images or so, and IntelliJ was essentially unusable until I did this (16 gig of ram, SSD, i7 quad core etc), and completely fine afterwards.
So if anyone is having performance problems, please do check this out.
Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8
#30I still can't seem to figure out: can IDEA + plugins = PyCharm & RubyMine & PHPStorm & WebStorm?
No, they can't. The special versions of their editors do things that are not possible in a plugin because of how much the UI changes the editor. The good news is that you can now get a license for all of the intellij based IDEs. It's not cheap, but worth it.