October 9, 2006
Old School – Another IDEA rant
after testing the 6.0 version of intellij idea for a few days i had to go back to version 5. on my 1.6 ghz centrino notebook the new version is slow enough to make you angry. if you are reasonably fast with the keyboard, you can watch idea catch up with your typing on quite a few occasions.
anyway, after i went back to version 5 i thought ‘just for fun i should try 4.5′. it’s a difference like day and night. the old 4.5 version starts in less than 5 seconds. version 6 takes about 30 seconds to load. the 4.5 editor is a lot faster. you notice it right away when opening files. lucky me. i don’t need all the new features. i miss a few for sure. but as a cool java source code editor, 4.5 is perfect for me.
the probably best part is that i don’t need to upgrade my license again.. :)
now all i have to do is downgrade my simple syntax highlighter plugin to make it work with 4.5. then i can use idea as a nice ruby editor, too. (btw: i failed updating the plugin for idea 6. i changed a few lines to make it compile again. and the highlighting works fine in the preview box in the color settings. but the associated file types are not hghiilighted at all. bummer. i guess some ‘hidden logic’ must have changed in the open api..)
amen to all of that..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 12:52 pm under Development,Rant
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