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I would love it if jetbrains were to speed up IntelliJ. I started a new job writing Java professionally last year and, up that point, I had no idea that IDE's could actually be that slow.

My company gave me a brand new, beefy Macbook pro and that thing can barely handle IntelliJ sometimes...

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Just use VS Code. Its Java support isn’t the best, but it’s good enough and the rest of the IDE makes up for it.

I feel like a lot of the love for IntelliJ is a sort of Stockholm Syndrome combined with relief at not using Eclipse.

But what about <some obscure feature that you use once in a blue moon and could’ve been achieved using some CLI faster than you could remember an IntelliJ shortcut for it>! It’s an IDE, not an editor!

What CLI can I use to extract an interface from a class?

open-code run "extract interface x from class y"

I’ve been using cursor mainly (so sorta vscode in a way). I just use IntelliJ for unit tests and the debugger mainly.

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