For about five years, my daily start of the day ritual was starting eclipse, going to a 10 minute standup, and coming back two minutes before it stopped loading. To be fair, it's probably better now, and I stopped doing Java work in 2014.
what I dont understand about java is why doesn't it just take what it needs? If I commanded eclipse to open, that's it. Open an editor, maybe 2-3 recent files, and let me move the cursor around. If IntelliJ isn't ready yet, so be it, but dont slow my UX down because it's running a bunch of services I didn't ask for. If I hit the IntelliJ autocomplete then fine, I'll wait if it's not ready, but until then, the editor frames should be just as snappy as notepad. Java doesn't put the user first!
