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IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by viraptor »

gadr90 wrote: post #5

I would love it if they focused on performance improvements and making the editor more lightweight overall. I love WebStorm, but even on my beastly XPS running nothing but it and Chrome, it sometimes hangs doing nothing. I'm starting to investigate other editors such as Atom because of this. I find it hard to believe that a quad core, modern computer can possibly have a hard time running a text editor.

Google a bit for adjusting GC settings in idea - stuff like http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/04/configuring-intellij-... (old, but check the comments). I'm not using it anymore, so can't find what I ended up with, but adjusting the startup options made a huge difference 2 years ago.

I think I also went for one of the experimental/less stable concurrent collectors - didn't find any issues in practice.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by mike_hearn »

GyrosOfWar wrote: post #8
kamilafsar wrote: post #2

I hope they're going to fix the Scala and Play plugins. Unfortunately they say nothing about it. Sometimes the lag between typing and actually seeing it in Idea is a couple of seconds.. Still better than the last time I tried Scala IDE (eclipse) though.

Yeah, that's definitely an issue. The Scala auto-complete is not very responsive, which makes the whole IDE experience with Scala pretty undesirable, sadly. I've been using IDEA with Java in the last ~2 months and it was perfectly smooth all the time. I guess Scala is a lot more complex as a language than Java, which makes parsing it on the fly much harder.

One thing I noticed about the Kotlin design and design discussions is that "that wouldn't be auto completable fast" comes up quite often. I had never thought about it before but it makes sense that language design choices can impact the speed of an IDE. I am starting to think that it also makes a lot of sense for language designers to have IDE development experience. I wish they'd hurry up and release a stable Kotlin.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by thejosh »

gadr90 wrote: post #5

I would love it if they focused on performance improvements and making the editor more lightweight overall. I love WebStorm, but even on my beastly XPS running nothing but it and Chrome, it sometimes hangs doing nothing. I'm starting to investigate other editors such as Atom because of this. I find it hard to believe that a quad core, modern computer can possibly have a hard time running a text editor.

Agreed, I run on Ubuntu for my main machine and it performs quite badly under that, and the fonts are terrible.

Yes you can patch them using some system wide font fix, but that makes everything else look like garbage.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by St-Clock »

eng_monkey wrote: post #14

Is this another minor release disguised as a major release in order make old customers renew the licence? I say this because I did not notice any major improvements between 12 and 13, but still I had to pay for a new licence.

Starting from v13, JetBrains includes a 1-year upgrade on their intellij license. Example: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/choose_edition.jsp?license...

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by kclay »

wernerb wrote: post #7
kamilafsar wrote: post #2

I hope they're going to fix the Scala and Play plugins. Unfortunately they say nothing about it. Sometimes the lag between typing and actually seeing it in Idea is a couple of seconds.. Still better than the last time I tried Scala IDE (eclipse) though.

I don't know how long ago you tried the scala plugin. But I had the same bug when writing strings. What ultimately fixed it was disabling i18n support in the scala plugin preferences. I haven't had a single freeze/stutter since.

I take it you mean the actually "Ii8n for Java" Plugin?

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by [deleted] »

thejosh wrote: post #13
gadr90 wrote: post #5

I would love it if they focused on performance improvements and making the editor more lightweight overall. I love WebStorm, but even on my beastly XPS running nothing but it and Chrome, it sometimes hangs doing nothing. I'm starting to investigate other editors such as Atom because of this. I find it hard to believe that a quad core, modern computer can possibly have a hard time running a text editor.

Agreed, I run on Ubuntu for my main machine and it performs quite badly under that, and the fonts are terrible. Yes you can patch them using some system wide font fix, but that makes everything else look like garbage.

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Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by lazzlazzlazz »

gadr90 wrote: post #5

I would love it if they focused on performance improvements and making the editor more lightweight overall. I love WebStorm, but even on my beastly XPS running nothing but it and Chrome, it sometimes hangs doing nothing. I'm starting to investigate other editors such as Atom because of this. I find it hard to believe that a quad core, modern computer can possibly have a hard time running a text editor.

My relatively old laptop runs IntelliJ and PyCharm like a dream... Atom runs sluggishly. I ditched Atom quickly.
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