

To avoid similar situations in the future, we’ll review and improve our internal processes to prioritize regressions in the product, especially the ones related to performance. We also underestimated the number of affected users and the time needed to identify the root cause and develop a solution. Unfortunately, this bug slipped under our radar, and we only learned about it in March when it was reported. To give you more context, we’ve investigated the problem thoroughly and realized it had been present since v2022.3.2. We’ll let you know once those builds are available for download. We’ve included the fix for WEB-59766 in the upcoming updates - 2023.1.2 EAP builds. First of all, we apologize for the inconvenience those issues caused you. Hello everyone! We (WebStorm team) want to briefly update you on the critical performance issues you’ve encountered with the IDE in the past two releases. I'm sorry for this rant, but it had to be said, maybe it is also an impulse for some who want to switch to JetBrains, that right now is probably not the best time for it. I have switched from VSCode to Webstorm, but as it looks, I will probably become a VSCode user again, for us in the company Webstorm has now become simply unusable, and we can not just remove some modules from our production software and then hope that this works. These noticeable degradations are registered as bugs in YouTrack since end of 2022, so far not a single fix appeared. Joking aside, the current situation is really awful, and all solutions coming from Jetbrains are either "don't use this and that module" "downgrade to a version that works" or "change this and that setting and hope it works then". (In winter it was quite ok, if you coded for a longer time you could almost use the PC as a heater). Just editing a string leads to 100% CPU usage and constant lags.

I primarily use WebStorm and in the last months the quality decreased so much, every update made everything worse and worse. What is currently going on with JetBrains, usually I was always used to super quality, but the last few months are.
