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JetBrains tools tend to be heavy

Right now, I'm using Webstorm with the Golang plugin on a 2012 13" MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM. What's so heavy about Jetbrains tools? For me, it's quite a bit more responsive than VisualStudio 2015 on a 2016 Dell Laptop with 16GB RAM and a much newer processor. (Both laptops have SATA3 SSDs.)

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I love webstorm. It is so slow on my 2013 13" core i5 MacBook Pro, compared to Atom. This week I think it froze twice. Its well worth it to get code completion and navigation, and debugging in javascript. Atom is pretty peppy for Go development so I would hesitate to use something different, all features being equal. Atom is slow to load, and dies on large files. So not without flaws. Typing and searching and all the Go features are fast.

Report it to Jetbrains. They're actually pretty good at responding to bugs.

It's a cost/benefit - I tend to favor the benefits of the JetBrains stuff (I do a lot of Java, so it's nearly a necessity). The only time I dislike their products is if I'm trying to maximize battery life.

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