Common sandbox IDEs #541
Description
Describe the need of your request
Every time I create a new plugin I must install an IDEA locally, inside the project.
When you maintain ~10 plugin you'd have 10*~500MB -> ~5GB similar content.
I remember I saw an article which explained how to create a common storage for IDE's for your plugins.
I'd consider to have it by default in the plugin template, because when you create at least the second plugin you're already utilize the disk space in effective way.
My example:
Shell:
❯ du -h -d 1 | grep 'plugin' | sort -h
Result:
372M ./gr-plugin
388M ./marp-intellij-plugin
448M ./gitattributes-plugin
461M ./robots-txt-intellij-plugin
549M ./sitemap-plugin
558M ./yiisoft-phpstorm-plugin
563M ./crontab-plugin
591M ./buggregator-phpstorm-plugin
606M ./git-codeowners-plugin
610M ./caddy-plugin
753M ./intellij-plugins
835M ./fs-info-plugin
985M ./php-opcodes-lang-plugin
1.1G ./git-churn-plugin
1.1G ./php-opcodes-plugin
1.4G ./phplrt-plugin
6.3G ./theme-plugin-fleet
Basically, there is 2025.1 IC, but sometime I just lazy to update.
Proposed solution
Consider about re-using the sandbox IDE's
Alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
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