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End of the world is nigh -- Netbeans is being referred to as 'lightweight IDE.'
by jergosh 16y ago
End of the world is nigh -- Netbeans is being referred to as 'lightweight IDE.'
- tomh- 16y agoIndeed, if Netbeans is 'lightweight' then E texteditor or notepad++ must be hardware accelerated by a dedicated chip :D. Netbeans has to be one of the slowest and most resource consuming IDE's I ever used.
- dagw 16y agoEven Eclipse is fast and responsive compared to Netbeans
- goodmitton 16y agoMy experience found the opposite to be true.
- wallflower 16y agoEclipse was an impediment (in Scrum parlance) to our project
- jrockway 16y agoBut probably a very minor one compared to the languages people use Eclispe to write.
- lallysingh 16y agoA bit of scouring around and I found some configuration settings to speed up Netbeans's garbage collection & buffers. Made it pretty snappy on my mac. Now that's once it's loaded and I'm editing; other times can still be slow. But it was a happy switch from Eclipse. Netbeans took longer to do things, but it didn't require that I try doing them 3-4 times before anything would happen (e.g. start/restart tomcat).
- jasonlotito 16y agoTo be fair, E and notepad++ are not IDEs. IDEs are much more than syntax highlighting. And Netbeans has been working hard to improve performance. 6.9 Beta was released, and the Dev releases before that were doing better then 6.8 and earlier releases in the memory arena. =)
- hopeless 16y agoIt also depends on which "flavour" of Netbeans you use. Netbeans for Ruby (i.e., without the Java stuff) is really very responsive (although I don't need/use code completion).
- ianso 16y agoCompared to Eclipse, it is :-)
- rubinelli 16y agoA fully loaded Eclipse (or one of IBM's mammoth IDEs, no idea they call them now) can take 1GB, but the bare-bones Java profile is almost snappy.
- dminor 16y agoIndeed - I used my eeepc for some Eclipse Android development and it worked quite well.
- ianso 16y agoThanks for the info you guys, I didn't know this. At work I generally have 1-3 large workspaces open in the "Java Enterprise" version of Eclipse, hence my warped perspective, maybe...
- toni 16y agoHave you tried Yoxos Eclipse[1] flavor? You can build your own distribution from scratch and only include the packages you need. You can even save your choices and continue modifying them next time you login. I have a very pleasant experience using it and my builds are usually around 100-200 MB. [1] http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start
- Legion 16y agoHey, that's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing!
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoPyDev is amazing as well. Admittedly, the machine upon which I'm running it has 16 GB of RAM, though.
- prog 16y agoI keep trying Netbeans and Eclipse but always come back to vim + terminator + mvn/ant
- ideamonk 16y agoI find Geany pretty light and complete for my current project in php, giving me 32 lines to look at a time. Running awesome wm with yakuake has been great relief on my eee pc 1005p which has just 1GB ram. When I run an xterm, yakuake and vim, along with apache and mysql in background, it just eats 140-180MB of the precious ram.
- ideamonk 16y agoPreviously I was running gnome on Ubuntu 10.04 beta, running a browser hogged up ram like anything 780MB when there's just a browser running. I think minimal window managers like fvwm, awesome, etc really make a good case for netbooks and netbook remix, etc don't really make it easy for you to work on it. Specially when the desire is to carry a long lasting battery life device with full fledged linux on it :D
- ideamonk 16y agoQt creator has been awesome on the netbook - http://twitpic.com/1hxgrp http://twitpic.com/1hxgrp I could easily complete a project working at various places - friend's house, college, college bus, nearby restaurants, etc Though I need to run Qt Designer separately in case I need to design something.