alt Hacker News> I tend to run older hardware,
> the tool is so fricken slow.
How old is "old hardware"? I've had no issues running CLion on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air and a i5-10400 (Linux). These projects are only in the hundreds of thousands of lines of code though.
> The install is gigantic on disk, leading me to avoid it on my older machines where space is limited.
I found that by default toolbox likes to keep old versions of the IDEs available for rollback. I disabled that and reclaimed tens of GB across all the products I use.
I run Dataspell and Pycharm on Intel Macs, and have been trying to decide whether to stick with JB products for writing Go or switch to VScode.
I don't find it terrible, but startups are slow and Dataspell often seems to get stuck in an very long slow loop of updating skeletons in my python package library. Probably not coincidentally, the package manager is apt to be the aprt of the IDEA that gets really sluggish and unresponsive, but I've also noticed problems with code completion/documentation popups. I don't have a vast number of packages installed, and my projects are pretty small, rarely more than 1000 lines of code. My code is also pretty clean and tidy because I'm not doing anything too complex.
> Toolbox yes I've noticed this too. I don't like it much, eg I had an old instance of dataspell that I uninstalled manually a couple of years ago but the ghost of it still shows up in Toolbox and there's no way to get rid of it. I sometimes feel like JB focuses too much on adding features but not enough on polishing them.