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by Insanity·9y ago·view on hn ↗
> IDEs written in Java are wildly slow…

My favourite IDE to use today is IntelliJ, and I prefer it over my experience with Visual Studio (though to be fair, I did not use VS intensively in the past 3-4 years).

I don't experience IntelliJ as "slow". It launches faster than VS did when I used it, and once it is running I keep it open pretty much the entire work-week without any issues.

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Other than Netbeans and Eclipse being faster and don't turn my dual core into airplane mode like Android Studio does, which forced me to enable laptop mode on it.
I don't really understand what you are trying to say, sorry :/
There are steps in the Android tool chain build process that are slow (i.e. much slower than pure Java build) but IntelliJ/AS platform IDE is plenty fast on my (admittedly top-of-the-line) 2012 MacBook Pro.
It's an odd statement to make, given that he states he's not a programmer in the notes.