Intellij Idea Community (Open Source) Edition + intellij-elm

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
elm

Research direction

Start by reviewing the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and intellij-elm links in the issue, then gather feedback from people using the combination for Elm development. Done should mean a clear project recommendation or documented findings, including whether its resource usage is acceptable compared with Atom.

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While we have traditionally resisted using IDEs for our coding, because they tend to be
We are always on the lookout for a more seamless development experience.

The latest Elmtown podcast https://elmtown.simplecast.fm/it-just-goes-on-and-on
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Touched upon the power Intellij for refactoring and inline function signature hints ...
This could be worth investigating for larger Elm Apps.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download the Community Edition is Open Source and Free:
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The Elm language plugin looks really good! It gives code error warnings in-line without having to run the compiler, this could be a significant boost to coding speed.

Question is: will it consume as much Disk/RAM as Atom? #23 🤔

is anyone @dwyl using this combo for writing Elm code?
can you share some feedback?

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