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RubyMine
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 10 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.
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IDE is sluggish to respond even on high-end hardwareUnreviewed
20102026- IDE feels sluggish and slow to respond even on high-end hardware2020-09-23
- IDE stays very laggy and slow to respond despite tuning settings2016-09-08
- IDE debug setup is fiddly, needing many other services running at the right time2013-11-27
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 14 complaints
- Debugger breaks unpredictably, especially after new Ruby releases2025-02-03
- IDE feels sluggish and slow to respond even on high-end hardware2020-09-23
- IDE stays very laggy and slow to respond despite tuning settings2016-09-08
- Editor tabs randomly reorder, so users must hunt for files they had open2014-03-12
- Menus and floating windows behave wrongly, shortcuts never feel sane, drag and drop and clipboard tools misbehave2013-11-28
- IDE debug setup is fiddly, needing many other services running at the right time2013-11-27
- Clicking a new line doesn't place cursor at the next tab level, forcing extra returns2013-09-23
- Interface is cluttered with Java features the user doesn't need2013-02-07
- Described as slow, buggy and confusing to use2012-12-06
- UI overwhelms the user with many unrequested things happening; also slow2012-02-16
- Hangs at 100% CPU when opening a project, unresponsive for long periods2012-02-15
- Feels sluggish and slow to respond, so the commenter falls back to other tools2012-02-15
- UI on OS X doesn't feel native, barely tries to match platform conventions2012-02-15
- Keymap filtering in the preferences dialog is broken, so users can't find key bindings2010-02-03