# Elixir IDE discussion

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-ide-discussion/7295>\
**Category:** Dev Env & Tools\
**Tags:** code-editors\
**Created:** [July 28, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-ide-discussion/7295 "2017-07-28T17:31:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-ide-discussion/7295/4 "2017-07-28T15:49:33Z")

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> [@Benefits of elixir other than OTP](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/benefits-of-elixir-other-than-otp/7260/12):
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> IntelliJ gained popularity almost entirely because it was so much faster than the alternatives. I started using it back in 2005 when I was doing Java work and Eclipse or Netbeans were the other viable options. They were both so slow they were unusable and would eventually bring my entire machine to a crawl.

Oh it is faster than Netbeans and Eclipse both as a Java IDE. However ‘as an IDE’ compared to other IDE’s (I like to compare it to KDevelop, vim, and emacs, and lately atom as well, which are all ones that I use pretty heavily) and it is dog-slow in comparison to those. So yes, in comparison to other Java IDE’s, it is fast, but it is not fast in the overall IDE ecosystem. ^.^

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