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Raised as a usability problem by 37 people on Hacker News over 19 years (2007–2025), in 33 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
IDE is slow to respond to interactionUnreviewed
20072026- IDE feels very slow to respond to interaction2017-05-19
- Occasional hangs and sluggish response when using the IDE2014-03-21
- IDE is so slow to react to input it made the commenter give up2011-04-20
Code completion is slow and suggestions are annoying and unhelpfulUnreviewed
20072026- Autocomplete is so slow that typing the code out is faster2025-01-20
- Too many code completion and helper popups get in the way2008-11-24
- Code completion is slow and its auto-complete suggestions are annoying and unhelpful2008-07-01
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 38 complaints
- Autocomplete is so slow that typing the code out is faster2025-01-20
- Must re-enter JDK location manually every time a new version is installed2023-08-08
- Must hand-edit a config file and paste the JDK path to get it running2023-08-07
- Java desktop software is laggy and slow, menus lag even on mid-range machines2022-05-06
- Can't figure out how to set up token auth2021-08-13
- Must manually download JDK, edit config files and hunt for info to get it running2018-12-28
- Unusably laggy on a new iMac2018-02-23
- IDE feels very slow to respond to interaction2017-05-19
- Setting up workspaces or multiple instances is too tedious to repeat2016-09-14
- Crashes so often the user gave up on it2016-06-28
- UI lags when typing fast on retina MacBook with heavy syntax highlighting2016-03-04
- Text editor window has no menu bar; not all menu items have shortcuts2015-06-10
- Shortcuts fire for both Dvorak and QWERTY keys, closing files unexpectedly2014-11-21
- UI is almost Mac-like but not quite, with things that should be configurable but aren't2014-11-20
- Lacks many editing functions that fully featured Vim offers2014-09-19
- Go-to-anything is terrible out of the box and still weaker after configuring2014-08-20
- NetBeans felt too slow to work with on the commenter's last try2014-03-25
- Occasional hangs and sluggish response when using the IDE2014-03-21
- Stopping a maven-run server leaves its process still running2014-03-20
- Splitting windows requires carefully dragging a tab to the exact spot, then adjusting and reaching for the mouse2013-10-28
- Formatting options are hidden behind a dropdown that changes the UI2013-10-22
- Could not get CMake plugin to make out-of-source builds2013-07-20
- Swing font rendering looks bad and ignores desktop font settings on Linux2011-04-20
- IDE is so slow to react to input it made the commenter give up2011-04-20
- Dialogs show up blank on Linux and macOS, making it unusable2011-01-27
- Build files get rewritten and the Ant build setup is hard to customize2010-10-23
- Other Mac text editors replace selected text with a tab instead of indenting it2010-10-23
- Debugger needs two step-overs per line; profiler takes forever or won't start2010-10-22
- Couldn't get any of the plugins to work2010-07-06
- UI feels sluggish to interact with2010-04-09
- IDE slows down badly while scanning projects2010-01-31
- Ruby parsing breaks on half-written code, so autocomplete fails and the author wasted time on a silent layout bug2009-05-27
- Installer silently adds unrelated GlassFish server without the user choosing it2008-11-26
- Too many code completion and helper popups get in the way2008-11-24
- Too many helpers and background compilation make the IDE feel unusable2008-11-24
- Open Resource is very slow and results are not cached2008-11-03
- Code completion is slow and its auto-complete suggestions are annoying and unhelpful2008-07-01
- Hard to figure out how to import a Rails project after installing2007-08-29