JetBrains also makes most Electron apps look downright parsimonious when it comes to resource usage. Hopping over to my work laptop, mine is consuming 3.21G of memory idle.

Let's compare industrial grade IDE with state of the art inspections and refactoring capabilities to music players and chat clients.

> For many languages

It's perfectly fair to compare them for some languages (mostly web). Let's also not pretend like people aren't comparing vim and ST with VSC all the time, while they're very different products.