IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 GA: Java 8 and ES6, Debugger and UI improvements, more

https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/11/intellij-idea-2016-3-ga-java-8-and-es6-debugger-and-ui-improvements-and-a-ton-more/

by andrey_cheptsov • 10 years ago

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cmrdporcupine3• 10 years ago

I really wish they'd roll the CLion C++ support into their IDEA releases, so I could just use one tool for multiple languages.

CraigJPerry• 10 years ago

Same thought exactly!

CLion has had python for a while so that kinda covers a bunch of my use cases but I still need java

rubber_duck• 10 years ago

That and also having integration with other build systems like Gradle native would be perfect - I could have a single build system for the entire project instead of that CMake junk.

cmrdporcupine3• 10 years ago

I have come around to CMake. I've come to really like it because of using it in CLion.

But having it as the only option is definitely restrictive. And not competitive with Eclipse, which is more flexible on this front.

anastasiak2512• 10 years ago

We do plan it in some future (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-4141). However, due to historical and some technical reasons, it's not that quick, so postponed for now until we find some resources for this task.

pswenson• 10 years ago

you should at least get the makefile support from C++ in there.. people use makefiles for bootstrapping docker all the time. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-5173

cmrdporcupine3• 10 years ago

That's good to hear. And I concur with the other reply here that additional build systems are going to be needed. I use CLion every day at work, but I have to maintain my own CMakeLists.txt and keep it in sync with our actual (Makefile or Bazel/Blaze) builds.

GFK_of_xmaspast• 10 years ago

I just bought the all-you-can-eat license.

evenh• 10 years ago

The Java 8 refactorings looks awesome!

andrey_cheptsov2• 10 years ago

Similar quick-fixes are now available for Kotlin as well: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/img/2016.3/idea_2016...

andy_ppp2• 10 years ago

400% CPU on PyCharm for me... I am super impressed with the features of this IDE; for me personally the jetbrains ones are my favourite, but whatever the setup on this Mac they are too slow for me to use.

Since moving to VSCode my laptop battery lasts a couple of hours longer :-/

yread• 10 years ago

It's not only on Mac, on this Windows machine with i7 and 16GB of RAM music playback starts stuttering when IDEA does its thing. I still like it though

realharo• 10 years ago

I often have to work with C++ code at work, so I'm all too familiar with music and video stuttering during compilation.

I usually just use procexp to give the music player process higher priority, which solves the problem (although not permanently).

jabzd3• 10 years ago

I was at 600% CPU and 5GB of RAM with 3 project windows open, for IntelliJ Ultimate (we hop between a lot of languages so this is easiest). This was with most inspections turned off!

I've also moved to VSCode and haven't looked back. My whole team is currently evaluating VSCode. That is ~$600/mo in subscriptions to IntelliJ Ultimate if everyone decides to move to VSCode - which is looking likely.

holtalanm• 10 years ago

depending on language, VSCode will be vastly inferior.

If using Java, Groovy, Kotlin, or Scala, Intellij will be much more valuable in terms of time-saving than the $600/mo subscription savings.

For most other languages, VSCode is easily almost on par with Intellij.

LoneWolf2• 10 years ago

I find it surprising that some people complain about performance, here even with two large Java projects I only get that kind of CPU % when building indexes (only after importing a project or dependency adjustments) and its only for a few minutes.

Maybe a specific Python project thing?

nogridbag• 10 years ago

As someone else mentioned, if you switch branches, IntelliJ will need reindex everything. I switch branches several times per day on some projects and it's annoying enough where I considered switching over to light weight editor.

andybak• 10 years ago

Weird. I've usually got 3 or 4 projects open in PyCharm and I'm seeing CPU usage like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/88crexgbaf7s042/Screenshot%202016-...

(hovers around 0.5% for PyCharm with occasional spikes up to 40-50%)

estefan• 10 years ago

Scala in Intellij blasts my CPU. People near me know when I'm working on scala because my mac nearly takes off the fan runs so much...

eklavya• 10 years ago

Good to know that's a thing, I thought I had misconfigured it somehow. Waiting for the Scala IDE rebase on vscode.

alangpierce• 10 years ago

I use PyCharm and WebStorm regularly without having persistent high CPU usage, although I've seen other people run into it.

Maybe you've already tried this, but one thing that I've found is that the JVM heap size is sometimes set too low, especially when working in a large project. You enable the memory indicator in the bottom right ("Window: Show Memory Indicator" from the Cmd+Shift+A menu) to see the current and max memory usage, and you can click it to manually trigger a GC. If your heap is too low, you'll GC a lot, which can easily cause CPU spikes.

There are details on how to set the heap size here: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.2/tuning-pycharm... . But the short version is that (on Mac) I made a pycharm.vmoptions file at ~/Library/Preferences/PyCharm2016.3/pycharm.vmoptions and it includes the line "-Xmx3000m", which sets the heap size to 3GB.

andy_ppp2• 10 years ago

I've literally tried changing all the JVM settings to be higher and it has zero effect.

staticelf5• 10 years ago

What about font rendering on linux, any better?

As of now, it's so horrible I can't use the product. Font rendering in Atom or Sublime is so much better.From what I understand this is because of their usage of java swing. But looking at fonts is what we do all day and I can't have them to look like shit.

ergo142• 10 years ago

What distro/DE? I'm using it under gnome 3 and its looking fine here.

staticelf5• 10 years ago

Red Hat enterprise desktop, I also have Gnome 3 and tried Webstorm recently and was very disappointed.

ohstopitu• 10 years ago

I used to feel the same way. However, after switching to Oracle JDK, and modifying a couple of settings in one of the dot files, it seemed to look as close to atom/sublime as possible (on font sizes 16+).

^ Tested on Webstorm and IntelliJ.

Will post configs when I get home. (I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity 7 and the latest updates)

LoneWolf2• 10 years ago

Looks good to me here, using KDE Plasma here, and Oracle JVM.

bitL• 10 years ago

On Cinnamon + HiDPI IDEA looks perfect.

andrey_cheptsov2• 10 years ago

We made quite a lot of progress in this area recently. However, not all these changes have made it to the release. When you have a chance, please try to launch the IDE using the latest JDK downloaded from https://bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-jdk (e.g. the build 555).

staticelf5• 10 years ago

Glad to hear, I actually love Jetbrains products but since the fonts have been pretty bad it was impossible for me to use the product.

I will try the latest version out!

EDIT: How do I start it with that version?

pjmlp• 10 years ago

As far as I am aware it doesn't happen with Oracle JDK.

staticelf5• 10 years ago

I tried to install it on my system but it seems I cannot successfully do that. :/

__roland__• 10 years ago

I noticed an improvement over the last version, so I'd give it a spin.

khkramer• 10 years ago

On Ubuntu installing infinality and their JDK patches made the fonts look amazing for me. With certain settings I even prefer it over OS X

malkia2• 10 years ago

I've changed everything on my system to be "Anonymous Pro 8" without any anti-aliasing, then forced it IJ to be "10". I did simply because when Chromoting, it'll still look good.

Somehow I've got really used to fixed-width font for almost anywhere, and seeing each pixel actually makes it somehow more readable to me.

noir_lord• 10 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/vkEq2qP.png

Left is Intellij, Right is VS Code, same font same size.

Using the latest x64 jdk release on bintray, it's remarkably close for a swing based app.

malkia2• 10 years ago

It's hard to judge though, since the image has compression artifacts. Also hinted anti-aliasing may look well on one monitor, and bad on another (RGB horizontally vs vertically, or other arrangement). But ignoring this, the outlines look very nice in both.

And having said that, I actually prefer fixed non-anti-aliased, in fact very pixelish "Anonymous Pro 8" everywhere.

staticelf5• 10 years ago

http://imgur.com/a/EZYEB

Left is Atom, right is Intellij and I think it's much better now than before when I installed Oracle JDK

Rotareti• 10 years ago

Looks flawlessly on my Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon machine using OpenJDK and 'Monospaced' (fontname). I had to set 'antialiasing' to 'greyscale' under 'appearance'.

lars_francke• 10 years ago

One thing that IntelliJ does not support is working on multiple branches of a product without having to reindex.

I work with a lot of Open Source tools (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka) with complex build setups. It often takes 10+ minutes for IntelliJ to load a project. If I now switch to a different branch it starts all over again.

I wish it'd keep a cache of multiple index versions around.

chikei• 10 years ago

I use git worktree as a workaround for this case.

pavel_lishin• 10 years ago

Can you go into more detail about that?

Rezo• 10 years ago

The recent WebStorm 2016.3 is really great as well: Flow support, convert to ES6 quick actions, React Native, debug Node apps inside Docker containers, ESLint quick fixes, etc.

If your editor doesn't offer basic productivity accelerators like React property autocompletion, or a Go-to-Definition that works across ES6 modules, or refactoring support in JS, you should really look into a proper IDE like WebStorm. Yes, it costs actual money, but it's a no-brainer for professionals. I've tried VS Code, Atom and others but keep coming back to WS for the pure productivity aspects.

danieljoonlee• 10 years ago

does intellij idea not update itself on mac if i have the previous version? it's sending me to a new download link for 500mb+

tf2manu994• 10 years ago

You can fix this using the intellij toolbox

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3 GA: Java 8 and ES6, Debugger and UI improvements, more

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