There was a time when a Swing application felt heavyweight, but today, it feels extremely lightweight (including JVM startup).
(Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.)
(Not IntelliJ, which is horrible in every regard.)
Curious, why is IntelliJ so thoroughly bad?
I can’t find anything to replace it’s features though.
Mind, not all the time, but enough to get used to it.
IntelliJ also doesn’t scale very well for large code bases due to the number of features it tries to provide. Basic things like project opening can take tens of minutes while jedit takes seconds (if that) as it’s not trying to build a syntax tree at load time.