RubyMine 1.1

There seems to be a lot of buzz lately about the new release (1.1) of RubyMine. I’ve decided to try it out on my Kubuntu 9.04.

The first impression was great, they released versions for Windows, Linux and Mac. Then I found out the editor was written in Java, which made it a whole lot easier. Unfortunately, I also found out that RubyMine eats up massive amounts of memory, a comparable amount to Aptana (about 350MB) and is significantly slower. Actually it’s so slow I can slowly count up to three between clicking and RubyMine’s reaction. Painfully slow, no font anti-aliasing, information about no UTF support (although it did read utf files, so I don’t know what’s with that) — this is definitely not a useful tool for me now. Does anyone else have these issues, maybe it’s just me?

I’ve been using Aptana for a while now, I have now discovered a way to change Netbeans’ look and feel, so I’ll try that. I should never switch editors, it’s always a disappointment, and I get used too quickly. Should’ve stuck with vim when it still worked for me.