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IntelliJ faster than VS Code? I don’t think anyone who’s used both products could make such a claim with a straight face.

I joke with my coworkers that I know they’ve fired up IDEA because I can hear it. Whenever it’s on, their fans are dialed up to full blast.

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I'm gonna make such a claim with a straight face. I don't know if it's VSCode's vim emulation or what, but on every platform I've tried it on IntelliJ beats it, while VSCode is busy catching up to where my cursor is still after chaining like 2 vim commands.

VSCode's vim plugin is pretty awful performance wise (I should know, I use it every day).

IntelliJ is slow to start up (though I've no idea why that would matter for an IDE). And when indexing and building it can be very demanding on machine resources.

But I've never found it slow in any respect that matters for doing actual work. For everything that matters (opening files, project-wide search/replace, refactoring, typing latency, looking up docs, code navigation etc) it's easily competitive with lightweight editors.

I'm curious how large the project is and whether it's the same project on both editors.

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