Which IDE?

Hey guys, I need some advice here. I have been using WebStorm/PhpStorm from intelliJ for a long time, probably last 4-5 years. Prior to that I was a big fan of SublimeText. Now after recent major version upgrage, WebStorm became my biggest nightmare. after each build or npm upgrade, actually pretty much all the time, it tries to index files ( except excluded ones ) which drags computer and me down to knees. it takes 5-10 minutes of frustration, every half an hour.

Don't get me wrong, I love the IDE itself and their claim on this matter is that's how they can support autoCompletes, code syntax checks etc. which makes sense, but for gods sake in a big project it takes triple more time to get something done.

Another great feature I love about storm is connecting debuggers and docker containers directly. both Php XDebug/Zend and node. Makes my life so much easier by how it does.

Now I have been omitting the fact that it drags and stops me constantly because of the perks I want from it and felt like it is a trade off I get. You can't have those features without having some pain.

My question is, from people tried them both and have some experience, my licence is about to expire on march with phpStorm, is there any other IDE works better ( performance-wise) but at the same time has same or similar features so I can ditch storm for good and move on something else.

Thanks.

PS: Visual Studio is out of scope :) I hated it from the first day

5 mins after running storm

Visual Studio is out of scope, but what about Visual Studio Code? It's very different from Visual Studio. With the right extensions, it makes PHP programming fairly delightful.

My problem with PhpStorm is the price tag associated with it. I am not paying over $100 per year for an IDE. (I'd be Organization Use, not Individual Use)

I personally use Aptana Studio 3, but it hasn't gotten too much love in the last few years, so it only works well through PHP 5.6. 7.0+ isn't supported, yet. It's still my favorite out of all of the IDEs I've tried.

Yes, trying vs code last few days now. To be honest not like storm. Had to install truck loads of plugins still not like i got used to. But promising. Love how easy to debug docker container.

Did you start using any external program that touches a lot of files? It can happen if you switch branches, are using network mount (no inotify), have compiled files that aren't excluded...

You can also try File > Invalidate cache & restart, or as a last resort, downgrade to an earlier version.

Not much to do about the memory usage other than having enough memory...

Yeah, this has been ongoing since 2018 version came out. I did try invalidating cache and restart but not a solid solution. files are local but also mounted as volume in docker. All the files that shouldn't be watched ( builds, node_modules etc) already ignored and I minimize the code styling and inspection rules. still no luck. the only thing running concurrently is webpack on docker container. but stopping that didn't make any difference. Tried pretty much everything out there posted about this issue but couldn't get a good solid solution. that's why I was asking if anything else out there as good as storm but not a dinosaur.

I'm not aware of anything close.

I don't suppose it's easy to try without docker for a while?

I realize it's not very useful, but finding a solution for even a nasty issue seems less work than switching to a new IDE, especially if a more limited one...

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