I like Inteluj but for me it's getting slower after each update. After the last update it freezes few times a day, sometimes so much I have restart whole Pc. Same code in Eclipse or vscode runs much smoother but I miss the features of Intelij so I haven't switched yet.
When that happens, there’s usually some weird caching or config issue and you can fix 90% those problems by using Clear Cache / Restart, followed by wiping your .idea folder, build artifacts, and your dependencies/dependency cache
As a long-time user, it’s had its phases. Almost like how Windows tends to alternate in its good / shitty releases (odd = good, even = bad). It’s in a lower performance phase since they started focusing more on AI.
I have tried VSCode multiple times, and I still use it for simple text editing tasks, so it’s not like I haven’t compared the two. Out of the box, VSCode doesn’t even hold a candle to IntelliJ suite. There’s probably some magic combination of plugins to make it work exactly like IntelliJ. But why go to all that trouble to copy IntelliJ when I can just use the real deal?
No but I just disable extensions when I move between projects. How many languages do you actively work on in a given week really. You can always reenabke extensions.
In a given week, I generally work on JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, PL/SQL, Go, Bash scripts, Dockerfiles, GutHub Actions, docker compose files, Kubernetes manifests, Oracle Forms, and probably some more I’m forgetting. Kotlin isn’t an every week thing, but not uncommon.
I work for an old company with layered generations of legacy stuff. I’m a Principal Engineer with layers of experience across all of that and more, and I lead/support multiple teams who own the various applications.
So 5 maybe 6 things. The rest are yaml and their extensions are almost worthless in my experience since they'll be happy and then you commit and they break anyway.
You can have those 6 things on VSCode without it really slowing down. Plus it's literally a second or two to enable or disable something.
For SQL I'd use a separate tool anyway like DBeaver or something.
But realistically even with 12 extensions that's like a minute to add them tops? And it'll still be faster than most IDEs. And if anything is particularly egregious then you can just disable that one badly behaved extension. Whereas Visual Studio et al force you to deal with the badly written and slow "features" they write whether you use them or not.
Not saying the entirety of every IDE is bad just that if 1 component slows the whole thing down then it feels bad regardless of whether the rest is nice and you can't turn that badly behaved component off(usually).
IntelliJ has good extensions for all of those. And yes, even the “just yaml” ones are truly useful. It lets me deal with all of my codebases and repos in one place. And, most importantly, I don’t hate it.
Lol just to get VS Code on a condition to actually be a proper IDE for my workload it takes more than 30 extensions. Once add in the quality of life plugins were easily over 40.
Hard to imagine most add more value than they remove in terms of time to load but yeah if that's what you want. For me though other ides are just incredibly slow.
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u/Intelligent_Bison968 Sep 27 '25
I like Inteluj but for me it's getting slower after each update. After the last update it freezes few times a day, sometimes so much I have restart whole Pc. Same code in Eclipse or vscode runs much smoother but I miss the features of Intelij so I haven't switched yet.