How is JetBrains autocomplete slow? It's 90% of the time instant for me. The 10% of the times always happen in the same patterns and I already expect it to not work immediately. In the other 90% i just always expect the autocomplete to be there and keep typing without thinking about it.
what type of development do you do with it? Like I mentioned, I use it for wordpress development. That means on any given keystroke, IntelliJ has to find the right symbol buried in gigabytes of data, since any given php file can have html, css, js, php and/or wordpress. Not to mention the wordpress plugins I'm developing are (imho) unnecessarily large. Half a second to several seconds is the typical autocomplete time for me, with the time increasing the longer it's open.
Just writing this makes me long for the good old days of html 4, css 2 and JS only being used to animate mouse trails.
23gb of ram, modern i7, ssd. I was doing development on Vagrant via VMWare, which slows things down, but not that much.
Maybe the deciding factor here is what we consider to be "instantly" is different. I do most of my work in VIM in a terminal and find most web-based apps[0] unbearably slow.
[0]: I'm not saying IntelliJ is web-based. I'm using it as a common metric.
