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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

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IdeaVim [0], a free plugin, is the best vim emulator I've ever used. [0] https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

I agree. IdeaVim is the best Vim emulator I've used as well. However, it is still just an emulator and it lacks some Vim features that I use all the time. IdeaVim is very good, but not as good as having NeoVim embedded would be, I think.

I'm curious, what features?

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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That's not unusual for any app based on the JVM.

Reminds me of the time I installed Visual Studio 2015. That pig sprayed over 30 GB of files onto my HDD and still needed 3rd party plugins to be on the same level as IntelliJ.

That's a bit excessive, did you install all of the vs stuff (all languages & tools including c++, office dev tools, silverlight, light switch etc)? If you just choose C# it's a bit better (though still big). And yes you still need Resharper, ironically made by JetBrains, for it to be on the level of IntelliJ.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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I 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.

Got any more detailed instructions for this? I'm running the OSX version of IntelliJ, I can't see this option anywhere

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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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.

Got any more detailed instructions for this? I'm running the OSX version of IntelliJ, I can't see this option anywhere

File -> Settings -> search for "direct"

Depending on the product version the settings dialog is a bit different: https://www.google.com/#q=intellij+exclude+folders

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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Does anyone know if there was some relationship between Jetbrains & Netbeans? Netbeans started as Xelfi in Prague mid 90s. Jetbrains is also based in Prague. A friend of mine started Xelfi -- I'm trying to figure out how awesome my friend is.

There was no relation between them. Java was hot back at the time, many companies jumped in.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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Call me old, but I still use eclipse even for android programming (using the ADT plugin). Every IDE has pros/cons, and both eclipse and intellij have their shares, but if you consider the big picture, they mostly even out. In fact, I would rather argue that the features on which intellij rules are of superficial nature and have more to do with a "nice feel" (such as more friendly code-completion or better looking gra…

Ironically enough I finally caved and bought a sublime text license a few months ago but since then I've learned vim and mostly use that now.

Same for me, used it without a license for several years and then two months after I finally bought one, I switched to Emacs. It also seems like development of ST3 has once again ground to a halt, no new beta releases since July.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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As someone who is about to heavily start using the Cursive IDE (built on top of IntelliJ IDEA), this is wonderful news. Coming from a frontend web dev background, Java 6 has been a layer of slime at the bottom of the barrel of sweet wine that is Clojure. Now, as soon as Minecraft gets off Java 6, I can rid my system of that infernal scourge. https://cursive-ide.com

Have you upgraded to the new Minecraft launcher? It bundles its own JRE, and I'm pretty sure it's Java 7.

Current bundled Java version is 1.8.0_25.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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IntelliJ reminds me of ramp up prior to Firefox 3.5, forever announcing performance increases which never seem tangible. However we're at Firefox 43 now and it seems to have delivered on the 3.5 promises, I still hold out hold for IntelliJ perhaps nearer v20. Damn shame atm though as Cursive Clojure looks awesome.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8

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Call me old, but I still use eclipse even for android programming (using the ADT plugin). Every IDE has pros/cons, and both eclipse and intellij have their shares, but if you consider the big picture, they mostly even out. In fact, I would rather argue that the features on which intellij rules are of superficial nature and have more to do with a "nice feel" (such as more friendly code-completion or better looking gra…

Most Intellij IDEA users (including myself) are former Eclipse users. Could I go back to Eclipse? Sure, but I wouldn't be as productive with it as I am using Intellij. I found myself fighting the UI and configuration way more with Eclipse than I have with Intellij. This might not be an issue if using 1-2 programming languages, but if using more than that, it gets pretty tedious in Eclipse.

Used Eclipse for 3-4 years when I was a student before discovering Intellij. Haven't gone back to Eclipse since then other than just testing once or twice a year.

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