IntelliJ is much slower than any other editor including Zed and VsCode it's much slower to open and navigate, much slower to work with, much slower, it's so slow! but the code completion, refactoring, code navigation, and debugging features and endless other smart features are incredible. For me, that extra intelligence and code awareness boost translates to way faster development overall, even if the IDE itself takes a bit longer to load or work with or consumes huge amount of memory. Sometimes the smarts outweigh the raw speed.
If you're familiar with nvim, you slowly realize how bloated and unnecessary the indexing is in intellij. It makes the experience so awful and for what? A file search feature that takes multiple seconds to find a file in root
Indexing maybe. But there's more: IntelliJ understands your code, and this make more sense for static/strong typed langs. We do a lot of Kotlin and IntelliJ is indispensable.
This is very true. PyCharm is by far better than any other IDE for professional python work. With how dynamic Python is, PyCharm's completion and static analysis is pretty remarkable.
Same. I was just using (heavily customized) vim for many many years, and was kinda ok, but then I eventually switched to IntelliJ products at work, and while I don't really like the idea of using a product with subscription, I cannot quite switch to anything again, and have to install them even on my personal machine. Didn't try Zed though.
And it's quite annoying that I really don't think that the product I'm actually using is something crazy complicated only an for-profit enterprise can implement. Just the same as in my vim-years, I only need a good editor, that helps me to type less. In interpreted languages (Python, PHP) I don't even use debugger, debugging via print actually feels totally fine to me. What I need seems pretty similar, and is seemingly included into every modern editor I know: vim-keybindings, good "code smell" highlightings, autocomplete & some refactoring automation. The devil is in the details though. Vim emulation is never perfect, but in IntelliJ it's usable, which doesn't happen often. Static-analysis IntelliJ does seems pretty basic to me, yet somehow even that level is usually lacking (also, the ability to disable specific suggestion via annotations in IntelliJ products is great, as I feel like this functionality is only really useful when I strive for 100% "green" status, just conciously disabling what I'm not going to fix). But the most annoying thing is auto-refactoring. I mean, it feels like a simple thing, I never tried, but I think most common refactoring patterns I do daily I could automate quite easily, given I already have basic syntax-tree operation implemented. But somehow even IntelliJ is pretty poor on refactorings, and what I've seen in VSCode plugins is even worse. Again, no idea about Zed. I guess I should try it.
What do you do to make Idea slow? On my computer, everything is blazing fast. Idea is very fast, like 1-2 seconds to open a project and then it's just works instantly. Same about vscode.
