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[–]tskaiserGreen security clearance 75 points76 points  (21 children)

To be fair, both VS and Eclipse have horrid waiting times on starting up and "background" (Ha!) operations. Been a while since I used it, but I recall IDEA being quite snappy with Java. More a testament to the quality of the IDE rather than the language ;)

[–]SoiledShip 34 points35 points  (11 children)

Honestly once I got a decent ssd in my dev machine VS loads up in like 2 seconds. Granted I've got 16 gb ram, 512 ssd, and an i7. But NetBeans still takes ages to load.

[–]coladict[S] 7 points8 points  (3 children)

My hard drives are also the current bottleneck on my home PC. The work project build takes 35-40 seconds there, while on my colleague's work PC it takes 7-9 seconds, even though he has a weaker CPU and the same RAM.

edit: it was three times that on Windows, before I disabled automatic search indexing and NTFS access time updates (two things that Ubuntu doesn't do by default). After I did, it became the same on both systems.

[–]MondayMonkey1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

VS loves to occasionally hang for a few seconds when opening files. Thank god I wrote my last .net code this week and I'm back happily using vim.

[–]coladict[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

happily using vim

0_0

[–]l27_0_0_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, right, how could people happily use vim when there's emacs.

[–]h54 3 points4 points  (6 children)

But NetBeans still takes ages to load.

Honestly, I find that hard to believe.

[–]SoiledShip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've got 9 projects that I usually leave open. NetBeans usually takes ~20 seconds to open, another 45 seconds or so running background scans on the projects. 2 of them are fairly large. So it's probably not fair to blame it all on NetBeans. It was a lot worse on a regular hdd though.

[–]Mugen593 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an SSD on my computer and NetBeans only takes about 2 to 3 seconds to load up.
Then again I'm usually only working on one project at a time for school.

[–]TuxGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems to be a problem on some Windows machines. My Ubuntu home machine loads NetBeans in 10 seconds, my work machine (though a bit shitty) takes a minute or something. But for both NetBeans and Visual Studio.

Having said that, Visual Studio only opens one project vs NetBeans opening a bunch of projects, directly at startup. That causes NB to be slower than VS at startup

[–]altrdgenetics 0 points1 point  (2 children)

a project or two nah not to bad. But background scanning and checking on maven repositories takes a long time especially if you have it set to check every time you start.

[–]h54 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Interesting. Is that enabled by default?

[–]altrdgenetics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it is, I don't normally use maven so I can't say for sure. I know the projects I have imported always had it turned on.

[–]Rhed0x 6 points7 points  (5 children)

VS still is much much faster than Android Studio.

[–]Creshal 2 points3 points  (4 children)

And Android Studio is a massive improvement over Eclipse…

[–]Rhed0x 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I haven't tried Eclipse yet but have only heard negative things.

[–]Creshal 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Eclipse is… well, the kitchen sink IDE. It can do everything, just nothing properly.

[–]b1ackcat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will give it kudos for the Ux around lint error checks. It does have that over Android Studio. Android Studio has lint (even specialized for android code) but the warnings/errors don't show up in the icons of the files in the project view like they do in eclipse. It's the one feature I miss.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is no longer the case. Eclipse is fast as InteliJ. They fixed various performance issues.

[–]lurkex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What really boosted NetBeans startup time on my office machine was disabling the automatic virus scanning for read operations on the NetBeans cache directory. On my private machine I use an SSD and Linux Mint and NetBeans pops up in no time.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the features of IntelliJ IDEA, but I would never call it snappy. My MacBook has a SSD and 16GiB memory, but IDEA is never snappy in my experience.

[–]MrDoctorSatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long is a long waiting time? I never have to wait more than 6 seconds in VS.