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Galkon is right, IntelliJ and other JetBrains IDEs are industry leading and are some of the most used IDEs out there for very good reason - you cannot beat their functionality. I ran their IDEs just fine on my old work laptop which was a $300 laptop from 2012 (even before I upgraded it to 16GB RAM from 8GB RAM, and then ended up getting a new laptop at a new job) lmao
Besides, unused memory is wasted memory - you want things to be cached in memory so they're faster and don't have to be loaded from the disk all the time.
1gb of memory is nothing today. "No code running" is a fraction of what an IDE does. An IDE indexes all of your files for quickly navigating between files, searching all files for contents, and being able to reference your dependencies. Then being able to refactor, reformat, and manipulate your entire project's files at once. IntelliJ takes it even a step further than their other IDEs because most Java dependencies are well-documented, so you can even reference javadocs within your IDE. IntelliJ boosts productivity and reduces time spent doing otherwise trivial but time consuming things. If you're upset at an IDE using 1gb of RAM and also hoping to be a developer in any professional capacity -- I have bad news for you.
Just use IntelliJ
No one cares.
Good job reading, quite literally, the first fucking post.
Holy fuck.
Wasting memory is a bad habit.
It's about doing it right.
I don't actually care.
Eclipse is a considerable alternative, albeit it doesn't even use more than a few hundred megabytes in comparison. Not to mention it's much easier to use.
Proper and correct emulating compatibility.
Except it isn't a waste, how you're seeing it as a waste is beyond me. By caching things in memory it takes a lot of pressure off the CPU, thus allowing for improved overall experience and speed.
There's no reason you shouldn't use whatever free memory your computer has; you're not going to gain anything by letting it go by unused. All IDEs also come with memory configurations that you can manage yourself.
The part about eclipse being easier to use is just wrong too; just because you're used to an IDE or know how to use it doesn't make it less complex than another. Put both up on a fair comparison and I'm sure IJ would come out on top, there's a reason why most replies here suggest using IJ.
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