> running the community edition of Jetbrains’ IntelliJ IDEA
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> As much as it hurts me to say this, as a fan of JetBrains and its tools, IntelliJ just seems to have become too heavy to run properly on a laptop that’s not at the very higher end of laptops in the early 2020’s.
IntelliJ does what I want, but only barely. The autocompletion gets it wrong as much as it gets it right and it is a performance hog.
I can deal with that.
The problem for me was JetBrains' privacy policy[0]. It is loosely-worded enough to forbid them practically nothing, and I find that especially appalling in a so-called "community edition".
So I began searching for alternatives. Emacs may serve for OP but I always forget how to exit it so I wanted something with a clickable "close" button in the top right.
I am getting a good initial impression from Codelite[1]. I'm sure Codelite doesn't do everything IntelliJ's IDEs do, but it has the functionality I use and it is a breath of fresh air after waiting for IDEA and the like to catch their breath during text editing.
[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/third-parties/
[1] https://codelite.org/
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> As much as it hurts me to say this, as a fan of JetBrains and its tools, IntelliJ just seems to have become too heavy to run properly on a laptop that’s not at the very higher end of laptops in the early 2020’s.
IntelliJ does what I want, but only barely. The autocompletion gets it wrong as much as it gets it right and it is a performance hog.
I can deal with that.
The problem for me was JetBrains' privacy policy[0]. It is loosely-worded enough to forbid them practically nothing, and I find that especially appalling in a so-called "community edition".
So I began searching for alternatives. Emacs may serve for OP but I always forget how to exit it so I wanted something with a clickable "close" button in the top right.
I am getting a good initial impression from Codelite[1]. I'm sure Codelite doesn't do everything IntelliJ's IDEs do, but it has the functionality I use and it is a breath of fresh air after waiting for IDEA and the like to catch their breath during text editing.
[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/third-parties/
[1] https://codelite.org/