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		mgkimsal on Feb 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IntelliJ IDEA 12 Wins Jolt Award for Coding Tools ... definitions of 'unusable' vary greatly. 16gb 2ghz quadcore 2011 mbp with 256g SSD and intellij is usable about 95% of the time - I get slow downs and hangs, but their OS-level stuff - I get the same stuff hangs in macvim, textwrangler, eclipse, pixelfari and other apps.

lucian1900 on Feb 12, 2013 [–]

Unusable as it very often freezes for about 5-60secs. Only IDEs written in Java appear to suffer from this, and that's most of them.

I want a good IDE, but none of them are good.

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