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IntelliJ start up time is much better now. Take a look on IntelliJ CE (ported to Apple Silicon) vs VS Code (under Rosetta 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erg0Dz0MXww Of course this is unfair comparison, but you can see that the start up isn't slow.

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That's indeed not a fair comparison. Mozilla reported up to 2x faster performance and 2.5x faster startup time on the M1 port.

That copy of VS Code seems to be starting very slowly, even taking the emulation into account. Lots of extensions, maybe?

For reference, it starts in around 3 seconds on my 2013ish laptop. (actually, more like 2014 - Haswell i7)

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