What IDE is best for Kotlin development? Intellij ...
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Hexa
04/22/2020, 10:01 PMWhat IDE is best for Kotlin development? Intellij Ultimate 2020 is very slow and hogging a lot of cpu for me so thinking of alternatives now
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rocketraman
04/22/2020, 10:03 PMUnfortunately there are not a lot of options out there. On the positive side JB knows about the issues with Kotlin on IJ and seem to be trying to fix them...
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JavierSalazar
04/22/2020, 10:10 PMAre you using a lot of plugins or are you using old hardware? I’d try tweaking settings also, some can be resource intensive
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
04/22/2020, 10:14 PMA few people I work with use Visual Studio Code or whatever their free offering is. Fewer features, but really snappy.
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
04/22/2020, 10:40 PMAlso have you tried using the 1.4-M1 plugin? I think it might be faster already in some cases.
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rocketraman
04/23/2020, 2:43 AM👍 1.4-M1 was significantly faster for me -- and lots of perf fixes are coming in -M2 : https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/KT?q=%23%7BPerformance%20Problem%7D%20%23Fixed%20Target%20versions:%201.4-M2
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David Eriksson
04/23/2020, 6:11 AM@HexaAre you one worse hardware than an Intel i5 and 16 GB RAM?
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Hexa
04/23/2020, 6:22 AMNo I got 32GB ram, 8 cores
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David Eriksson
04/23/2020, 6:26 AMr
rocketraman
04/23/2020, 7:26 AMb
Brendan Weinstein
04/23/2020, 5:36 PM1.4-M1 plugin is great for performance for jvm-only projects but lots of red underlines in multiplatform
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