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> Most JetBrains products are super slow, and resource hogs

> These days I am mostly using VsCode for development

Please qualify the difference in speed between JetBrains and VS Code. From my perspective, they are both “super slow” and “resource hogs”.

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I moved from Jetbrains to VS code and the speed increase was phenomenal. Jetbrains was pretty sluggish and buggy on my MBP compared to VS code.

I have a MacBook Pro with 16GB of memory and i5 processor. It is sufficient for VsCode, however for some more complex Jetbrains products I sometimes struggle to copy and paste from one file to the other. On an 8GB machine VsCode is likely struggling as well, so a resource hog as well, just less so than some JetBrains products.

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