The whole Jetbrains product suite is sliding downhill quality wise. Can we go back to the days of yore where it was just a lightning fast Java code editor and it did that extremely well?
Unless something drastically changes, I won't be renewing my license anymore. I don't like VS Code, but it's been much more reliable than the Jetbrains tools I use.
Junit test runs say No tests available about 50% of the time
It feels slower and slower
Today I started getting "unable to save settings" or something, no idea what that is about
It really shows that they're distracted from quality. My guess is with the breadth of features and quite amazing attention to detail, they needed 100% dedication to those efforts, and now a chunk of the company is doing something else, and now the product is falling apart
But hey we have a totally new console engine or something so that's really nice (I've personally never used the console ...)
In Webstorm it sometimes does not recognize comments (colorizes them as code), does not reliably recognize multi line ToDos, and frequently warns me in a if (myVar == null) that myVar may not have been initialized.
At least the last issue is as old as the hills, has been reported several times, and yet they seem to be unable to properly fix it.
For multi line ToDos, make sure the comment in the second line begins with a space.
I'd pay decent money for an editor that could be faster than Neovim but until then they get my yearly donation.
There's so much that can be gained solely on speed alone. Especially for JetBrains products here too.
Haven't it used it since adopting neovim but I am happy that the Sublime team is still around and able to make a living on a good product.
(Please don’t disappoint me by saying “they added an optional feature and I don’t like it”)
They have had quite a few issues open for nearly a decade (I wish I was kidding) for features that had been quite sought after, that free tools have had for years.
- DataGrip sporadically stops working when returning from sleep. I have to force-kill it to continue.
- Take a relatively empty file with 10 lines. WebStorm is supposed to reformat on save. It hangs for 10+ seconds or until I cancel reformatting.
- I saw a low memory alert for the first time in months this week. My workflow hasn't changed drastically and I wasn't running anything, just editing a few files.
- Overall everything feels a little slower than it did a couple weeks ago with the older version.
I don't think it's worth filing issues in YouTrack because I've seen those go nowhere in the past.
Another annoying thing is they also removed the modal commit window in favor of a VS code style commit. It was removed without notification, and I had to install a plug-in to restore it.
IDE UI is the most important thing for me, I've built muscle memory to use it without think. When they tinker with it, it forces me to think about the IDE instead of about what I'm working on, and that's really annoying. Not enough to lead me to change, for now.
Uh, I don't think it's ever been "lightning fast"... Great at refactoring, navigation, and boilerplate generation, yeah; fast, no.