Visual Studio Code provides an actual terminal and allows the user to choose between different terminal implementations such as Bash and Powershell. It also com

Visual Studio Code provides an actual terminal and allows the user to choose between different terminal implementations such as Bash and Powershell. It also comes with some well thought-out keybindings for switching focus between the integrated terminal and the editor. On Windows NetBeans does not provide a working terminal out of the box, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32959347/netbeans-terminal-window-is-gray-and-wont-accept-characters https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32959347/netbeans-termin.... Also, while not strictly related to the terminal, the output window can not be used with System.console(), see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26078106/system-console-gives-nullpointerexception-in-netbeans https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26078106/system-console-.... Fixing either of these two issues would go a long way for improving the workflow when developing interactive command-line applications. Edit: Oh, and also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1783 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-1783. ;-)