Andrea Basileandandreabasile
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Refs #1083 (step B). A local project with a devcontainer.json can be reopened in its dev container (File › Reopen in Container, Find Action): the Dev Containers CLI brings the container up and the window connects to openidea-server inside it, as for WSL, so terminal, language servers, run, debug and git work in the container. The project's identity stays the local folder, so reopening from Recent Projects finds the same container. Missing CLI gives install guidance; trust of the local project carries over. Pure CLI output parsing lives in ide-remote; a failed connection no longer closes the current backend early, saved locations keep the container configuration, and Docker context precedence follows the CLI. Co-authored-by: andreabasile <[email protected]>
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OpenIDEA brings the IntelliJ IDEA way of working — its keymap, its tool windows, its search-everything habits — to a native app with a Rust core.
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Benchmark
Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
| OpenIDEA | IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3 | |
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| 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 |
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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.
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