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How recently? If you installed IntelliJ during 2020 it didn't have native ARM support yet[1], and had to be reinstalled to get it, so it would have been running in emulation.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/12/intellij-idea-2020-3...

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I was using the ARM version, by slow I mean I can see the splash screen for a couple of seconds. Whereas VSCode starts up instantly. I've got `alias c='code .'`, typically I open the editor from iTerm2 the same way I would use vi. IntelliJ is still more advanced in many ways. I guess the point I was trying to make is that Electron looks like a better platform for cross platform apps compared to JVM.

Also, many NeoVim plugins are using component from VSCode, and the other way around.

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