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Plain-jane Eclipse works better for me than IDEA for my hobby Java coding. On my late 2015 Mac, Eclipse much snappier and the font-rendering is better. IDAE takes 3+ mins to launch. Eclipse takes 20s on a cold launch. To be fair I am not using any plugins and not doing any JEE stuff.

I just can't get IDEA to respond to clicks in less than 10s. There's obviously something wrong with my setup.

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I have that problem in IDEA if I enable 1) IDEAvim, 2) ligatures, and 3) relative line numbers.

That may be idiosyncratic but if you happen to match, there you go. Either turn off relative line numbers (absolute are fine) or ligatures.

I'll give that a try. Thanks.

Sure thing. Going from relative to absolute took my startup time down from holy crap to a couple of seconds and eliminated a bunch of pause/stutter after code changes, especially with large files. Started right when I moved to Fira Code, and took me forever to find the footnote in a random GH issue (think in the IdeaVIM repo, but might have been the Nerd Fonts repo) that mentioned the behavior.

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