I just spent half a day troubleshooting why PHPStorm suddenly took 15 minutes to become responsive. The cultprit was the built-in markdown plugin, probably after an update. I don't have time for that.
Another annoying thing is they also removed the modal commit window in favor of a VS code style commit. It was removed without notification, and I had to install a plug-in to restore it.
IDE UI is the most important thing for me, I've built muscle memory to use it without think. When they tinker with it, it forces me to think about the IDE instead of about what I'm working on, and that's really annoying. Not enough to lead me to change, for now.
Rider stands out because the competition for C# development is VS2022 and VSCode. VS2022 is bloated and slow, while VSCode is missing tons of important features. Can't really speak to how other JB offerings compare to their competitors, but Rider is best-in-class for C#/.NET.
I'd say it would depend on the product. I understand there are different teams developing each IDE.
They have had quite a few issues open for nearly a decade (I wish I was kidding) for features that had been quite sought after, that free tools have had for years.
I'm not OP, but agree that the tooling—DataGrip and WebStorm for me—is getting worse. Here are issues observed for the latest updates:
- DataGrip sporadically stops working when returning from sleep. I have to force-kill it to continue.
- Take a relatively empty file with 10 lines. WebStorm is supposed to reformat on save. It hangs for 10+ seconds or until I cancel reformatting.
- I saw a low memory alert for the first time in months this week. My workflow hasn't changed drastically and I wasn't running anything, just editing a few files.
- Overall everything feels a little slower than it did a couple weeks ago with the older version.
I don't think it's worth filing issues in YouTrack because I've seen those go nowhere in the past.
(Please don’t disappoint me by saying “they added an optional feature and I don’t like it”)