Comments by "" (@pierreollivier1) on "Why I Cant Stand IDE's After Using VIM | Prime Reacts" video.

  1.  @hrmny_  Jetbrains IDE are insanely slow, compared to vim/nvim/helix or even VScode which tells a lot, and apart from the debugger I really don't understand what's good with them.
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  2. Nothing do to with gatekeeping, they are just not very good tools that's it. They are just insanely slow, and no one can explain to me why CLion takes 3gig of Ram doing nothing, where 20y ago most of the features of CLion were Running on 2000's computer no problem. Yet today we need basically supercomputer to just draw font on a screen, that's shameful, it's not even capable of doing the most basic things it's supposed to do, despite running on a supercomputer. That's why people give their opinions about them to encourage people to strive for improvement, and using better tools make you better at your job that's easy to understand.
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  3. I will never go back to an IDE I think, I've started with them, tried vim, than nvim, then Helix, and now I don't even think It's possible for me go to back to an IDE first I don't understand what they offer that I can't get in the terminal ? With Helix and Iterm there is everything, I need, file picker, quick navigation with fzf, and nnn, debugging with lldb, lazygit, omz, lsp, all of the unix utils, like grep, sed, wc, awk, etc etc. I move at the speed of light all of this with maybe 400mb of ram usage with everything from the terminals, to the editor open with lsp running. On the Other hand when I tried CLion I was actually just embarrassed for the developers who made it, like what a shame, I don't even understand how anyone would release that piece of steaming hot garbage and think it's any good. For reference I have a top of the line computer, and despite having what's basically a supercomputer, CLion can't actually run it seems, Takes about 20 solid seconds to open, when it finally decides to display something it fails at the most basic task that you can expect from an IDE which is syntax highlighting. Everything is sluggish, menus, and the interface is bloated everywhere, The debugger is great tho, at least in terms of functionalities. All of that while taking 2.7g of RAM like WTF ??? I really don't understand how others are working on code with IDE.
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  4.  @warpspeedscp  I mean surely it's probably not that bad, but I just don't understand the workflow, because I'm constantly switching tabs, moving from file to file, greping left and right, It did actually bothered me a lot that the syntax highlighting wasn't instant despite running a very good computer, on top of that a very simple project in C (about 10k lines) took like about 10/20 second to fully load, this to me was insane, everything is instantaneous in the terminal, and with support for lsp, you basically have the same kind of functionalities that an IDE can provide without all the bloat. But in the end it probably is just personal taste
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