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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 mdaniel »

dominotw wrote: post #35

Wow this is magnitudes slower that 13 CE. What gives? Can I turn off something(plugins?) to make it faster?

If you are experiencing quirks like that, please report them via http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/ since that is the whole purpose of an EAP program. I don't think you will receive support for your specific problem via the tracker, but at least they will be aware that such a condition exists.

If you want help, http://devnet.jetbrains.com/community/idea/ideacommunity will probably be a great place to start. I have found their forums to be responsive and to have a pretty good signal/noise ratio.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by _random_ »

pweissbrod wrote: post #30
_random_ wrote: post #18

I hope they will add C#+Xamarin support when their project N arrives. Sell for 30% of Visual Studio price: win for everyone (except MS).

Wouldnt the increased accessibility to the C# language be of benefit to MS?

Maybe, they are thinking differently now.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by _random_ »

bitL wrote: post #36
_random_ wrote: post #18

I hope they will add C#+Xamarin support when their project N arrives. Sell for 30% of Visual Studio price: win for everyone (except MS).

I don't think that's gonna ever happen. That would cannibalize ReSharper for C# sales which are bound to Visual Studio and cause a cool down in the relationship with Microsoft. Sure way to go out of business.

Yes, but Roslyn is going to hurt ReSharper somewhat.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by jwn »

jasonwocky wrote: post #23
jwn wrote: post #20

Is there any discussion about IntelliJ supporting multiple open projects at once? Requiring a separate window for each project breaks down when I've got 21 projects open, as I have now in NetBeans.

Not to sound snippy, but how do you define projects in your world, and how do you benefit from having 21 of them open at once? How many do you interact with in a typical day? That setup is so far removed from my day-to-day experience that I'm genuinely seeking understanding here. At most, I typically have 3 or 4 open "projects" at once, and those would be fairly tightly related (like, a server codebase and a couple o…

I'm not going to go into my specific needs or project setup, but even with 4 open projects, IntelliJ requires 4 open windows! That's asinine when both NetBeans and Eclipse allow me to decide how many projects I want open within a given IDE window. It's the biggest reason I only use IntelliJ when writing IntelliJ plugins.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by gadr90 »

viraptor wrote: post #11
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.

Thanks for that, I will try that out right now.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by gadr90 »

userbinator wrote: post #22
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.

Is it a CPU bottleneck (cores being at 100% would be a good sign of this), or memory running low and causing swapfile use (high HDD activity)? Without any further info I'm leaning toward the latter, as you have both a Java application and a browser possibly running lots of JavaScript, and both being GC'd languages means they'll be competing for memory rather aggressively.

I never bothered to check, but I think it's probably memory. Sorry for the delay to reply, I'm on vacations!

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by gadr90 »

papaf wrote: post #27
thejosh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Have you installed the Oracle JVM? By default Ubuntu uses OpenJDK.

I use Oracle JVM, by the way.

Re: IntelliJ IDEA 14 Early Preview is Available

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Post by gadr90 »

tobltobs wrote: post #6
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.

Are you using windows?

Ubuntu 14.04. Sorry for the delay, I'm on vacations!
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