Root cause: the editor had no font weight settings, and the WebView rendering of JetBrains Mono looks lighter than IDEA (#32). Fix (IDEA's Settings › Editor › Font › Typography Settings): configurable Main font weight and Bold font weight (defaults Regular 400 / Bold 700) via --fw-code / --fw-code-bold; colour-scheme bold/regular overrides still win; settings preview updates live. Replaces the Light-only 450/550 hard-coding. Siblings covered: sticky lines, diff/merge, run console (ANSI bold), Find in Files, completion/parameter info/docs, database editor, debugger value popup, matched braces, terminal with "Use editor font". Verified: scoped vitest, ide-core tests, in-app on macOS (settings UI, editor weight follows the setting end to end). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VUYsdXA2nkF5v6zsC93dpn
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Benchmark
Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
| OpenIDEA | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Window with the project | 0.9 s | 3.1 s |
| Ready (CPU settled) | 1.1 s | 13.2 s |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB | 2011 MB |
| CPU time until ready | 2.4 s | 47.9 s |
| Idle CPU | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core |
| Quit | 0.3 s | 5.9 s |
A release build of OpenIDEA from main and IDEA with default settings and plugins, on
Windows 11, 32-core AMD, 62 GB RAM.
IDEA analyses Python more deeply, so "ready" doesn't mean the same work on
both sides. Both are measured from the outside, the same way: see
perf/compare to run it on your machine and projects.
Build
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev
Rust 1.96, Node 22, pnpm and the Tauri prerequisites.
License
Apache 2.0. Bundled third-party assets are listed in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
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