I’m glad Matthew found an editor he likes but reading this I just couldn’t get that friendship ended meme out of my mind.
No more JetBrains products for me
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#142> It is so remarkably slow, and I cannot begin to understand these people that are telling me that it runs fast. Granted, I tend to run older hardware Always hard to interpret these complaints when the author won't reveal what hardware they're talking about, other than that it's old. I think Zed is a great option for someone who is both highly critical of load times and has older hardware. I would not have recommende…
Plugins are often to blame, I had some recurring issues with the full IntelliJ when opening multiple instances at the same time. I switched to Webstorm without any plugins for light editing without all plugins loaded, I have around 5 instances opened at all times without any issues on an old M1 Max
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#143> It is so remarkably slow, and I cannot begin to understand these people that are telling me that it runs fast. Granted, I tend to run older hardware Always hard to interpret these complaints when the author won't reveal what hardware they're talking about, other than that it's old. I think Zed is a great option for someone who is both highly critical of load times and has older hardware. I would not have recommende…
> so hyper-sensitive that a couple seconds of loading screen seen a few times a day is enough to trigger them
Reportedly the xz supply chain compromise was first noticed by someone who reported his SSH connections took an extra 500 milliseconds.
https://thegeekinsights.com/how-a-hacker-saved-the-internet/
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#144> It is so remarkably slow, and I cannot begin to understand these people that are telling me that it runs fast. Granted, I tend to run older hardware Always hard to interpret these complaints when the author won't reveal what hardware they're talking about, other than that it's old. I think Zed is a great option for someone who is both highly critical of load times and has older hardware. I would not have recommende…
IDE's format and display text. Outside of compiling, they should respond instantly on a blight-ridden potato, with resources to spare.
Text editors just format and display text. IDEs have compilers, debuggers, indexers, source control integration, analysis tooling, WSL integration, SSH integration, and whatever plugins you might have installed.
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#145I ran jetbrains ides for about six years, and recently switched back to Sublime but with LSPs. Nowadays with LLMs I just want to open an editor quickly to make changes, or navigate the code. Even the typescript LSP is faster to start than loading the IDE. And ripgrep is much faster than the fancy indexed search in the IDE. Not to mention, the search box would just half the time not work in the IDE or flat out lie? Also on linux the "go anywhere" modal would sometimes just be a black window or be positioned wrong.
They are doubling down on the state of things now by running "safe and stable" advertising, which doesn't make me feel like they're actually going to improve anything. I probably won't be renewing, either.
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#146I'm still happy with DataGrip, but I moved on from their editors many years ago.
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#147I get it, but, you'll have to pry my debugger with interactive live stack editing from my cold dead hands
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, don't you reverse into a parking space and drive straight out?
I always wonder why people do this. What’s the reasoning?
I asked a former truck driver once and his answer was that it's easier to see what's in front of you than behind you. I wondered why people in our neighborhood backed into their driveways at first, then I realized this was indeed true. If I turn into the street and back into my driveway, somebody probably hasn't jumped behind my car. If I get in my car and back out of my driveway, somebody walking/biking along may not notice my car backing out of the driveway, and my old potato backup camera isn't always the best at illuminating people behind my car at night in bad weather.
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#149I've always found JetBrain products interesting . I started my dev career using Borland C++ builder ans VB5. I went through most IDEs, including the infamous NetBeans and Eclipse (which made their own "non-swing" ui for "speed". Building a UI application in Java just never made sense to me. Its just not the technology gor that.
On the dev side, I started with IDEs and debuggers and whatnot, but later in my career they didn't give me enough value, and the time needed to configure them (I remember trying to setup RubyMine debugger.. yuck!).
Nowadays I mostly do vim VSCode and recently Cursor/Antigravity for the AI.
But my theory is that IDEs are going to disappear due to AI based development. Paradigms will be different.
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#150Every once in a while, I have to figure out an IntelliJ indexing issue. I've got a personal Claude sub and access to Claude for work, so will not be using the JetBrains AI sub. If the indexing gets worse, or paying more for their AI becomes mandatory, I'll be done and back to Emacs, which is what I've been using for Claude anyway. Not there yet tho.