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NetBeans was the first IDE we used in college (circa 2006). It's ridiculously easy to get setup, as opposed to Eclipse which I've always disliked.
by marpstar 10y ago
NetBeans was the first IDE we used in college (circa 2006). It's ridiculously easy to get setup, as opposed to Eclipse which I've always disliked.
- jitix 10y agoMe too. I think eclipse is too complicated for a college student who's just upgrading from text editors or BlueJ. Netbeans is still my go-to IDE for prototyping stuff or writing simple stuff that dont need me handling multiple branches at once. The only reason its not my main IDE is the lack of workspaces and/or multiple instances (I did make it work once but its too tedious to set up again). One of my favorite analogies is that Netbeans is the iOS of the IDEs and Eclipse is the Android. Eclipse supports way fore features than Netbeans but Netbeans "just works".