Rant: please focus on fixing bugs for a while, instead of adding new features
IJ has always been an amazing IDE, and I have been a loyal customer for years. However, over the last few releases, I've found IntelliJ to have gotten slower and slower, and buggier and buggier.
I run IJ on a 32 core Threadripper machine with 64 Gb of memory, and find it to hang in the editor way too often. For example, I just made a few changes that kept hanging my IDE for a few seconds at a time. Then, I tried to undo the changes, and each undo caused another hang, each of a few seconds. Yes, I've filed performance issues in YouTrack in the past (here is one: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-27106, open for 6 months), but few things ever seem to get fixed. I can only imagine the issues people with slower machines are having.
On top of this, there are issues like this one I created two months ago: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-29352. Because of this, my colleagues who use Windows can't even execute applications from within IJ -- this is not a minor issue! No action taken by JetBrains as far as I can tell.
I know you're trying to gain users with new features. But a slow and buggy IDE is more likely to turn users off of your product, features or no features. I'd really recommend taking a hard look at what your product team is focusing on.
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+1, it's buggier an buggier. this 2024.
every time I run java debugger, it just halts and kills the whole momentum… and creates minute disappointments.
I tried all stack overflow solutions to add domain to etc file .. this ..that the IJ just hangs. and apperently nothing JB can reproduce , every user has to provide thier logs .?? I mean.. I introduced this product in companies in some cases, I was a flag holder for IJ , but now I have my doubts.. believe me I myself will look or alternatives
Vivek Shah
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. We would appreciate if you could share more details about the issues you encountered on our issue tracker: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=IDEA. We'd like to investigate further. Thank you.
Ivan Pajic yes, its an old thread but still very relevant as the newer releases of your software continue to disappoint with unresolved issues and newer bugs. I've had it with PyCharm as it ccontinues to frustrate my development. Issues i have opened remain unresolved for months . Your team seems to be quite focused on AI integration. Please get your priorities right.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70815
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/DS-5998
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-33181
I'm working with a single row data frame and the output of the last expression in the cell is not visible.
About 30 secs later after doing nothing with it or even interacting with PyCharm, suddenly I get output.. Voila!
Dear JetBrains, why don't you quit your day job and join a circus troupe as magicians!
Bijoy Thomas Please file a bug at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/newIssue?project=PY .
And what will happen after that? Your team will count votes before it decides this needs to get fixed?
I'm moving on to other alternatives and don't care.
It will likely get resolved as most of the other issues that are reported and can be reproduced or have proper diagnostics provided. Performance issues always have high priority for us.
Ivan Pajic Serge Baranov the 2024.1 release has brought many issues. Great features, but for each one of them a lot of instability. I've been a Jetbrains user since I can remember, first through my company and now paying myself. So much that in my current team I'm the only one using Rider, while all my colleagues use VS or VSCode. These are just a few issues I've recently reported or have encountered since the update:
- https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-112002/Rider-crashes-when-opening-a-specific-project
- https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-2801/Chat-code-formatting-inverted
- https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-66352/WebStorm-2024.1-syntax-highlighting-autocompletion-takes-extremely-long
To that you can add:
- Webstorm code preview not working on Linux. When I click on the webstorm icon to preview my changes, the IDE crashes.
- At random times Rider debugger will not show variable values, even when they are in scope.
- Rider not recognizing NuGet packages after switching branch. And then showing errors in all the files, this is def a bug in “Solution-wide analysis". This one is from 2023 though.
And that is just to name a few. I've got to a point where I see no reason to continue reporting bugs anymore. I really agree with the title of the post, and it's sad that it's 5 years later and it is still the case. I'm so disappointed that it would be perfectly acceptable for me, and I'm sure many others, to not get any new features for a year, as long as you just make your software more stable.
This is no more a professional dev experience.
You guys, have a huge technical debt.
This seems not changed at all in my view. remote development is also pretty buggie if comparing to vscode.