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Re: Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

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IntelliJ Idea is head and shoulders better than many other IDEs, particularly Eclipse in the reliability department.

Many of their products are. I'm constantly amazed at how well PyCharm is developed, just yesterday saw how well they support git submodules for projects and synchronous commits.

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IntelliJ Idea is head and shoulders better than many other IDEs, particularly Eclipse in the reliability department.

Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.

When I used it for Java, I often would have to use the menu option to restart. Seriously .. a menu option to restart???

The stability wasn't as bad as the slowness. Also, OSGI seems to be a philosophy or cult. Things are just generally complex and bloated.

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haproxy and redis are the two that come to mind. Not necessarily because they make me happy , but they never seem to make me angry or sad. Which with most infrastructure software is rare.

Terraform is surprisingly painless for new-ish software.

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For me, probably dwm. I almost forget that I'm using it, but in a good way. It has merged with my muscle-memory and never, ever fails.

I recently tried some tiling window managers, but the problem with those was that none of them provided basic default configuration and you have to configure them from scratch. For example you have to add a plugin for small things such as a battery indicator. The custom themes were too much bloated for me. I ended up installing shellshape for gnome. Do you know any tiling window manager which solves this?

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For me, probably dwm. I almost forget that I'm using it, but in a good way. It has merged with my muscle-memory and never, ever fails.

I recently tried some tiling window managers, but the problem with those was that none of them provided basic default configuration and you have to configure them from scratch. For example you have to add a plugin for small things such as a battery indicator. The custom themes were too much bloated for me. I ended up installing shellshape for gnome. Do you know any tiling window manager which solves this?

I'm fairly certain that i3 comes with a percentage battery indicator by default. The default config is pretty good (except it uses `jkl;` instead of `hjkl`, but that's a simple fix).
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