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I find it fascinating that there's so many Netbeans fans here on HN. Been doing software engineering professionally for 20 years now and ever since IntelliJ sta
by bitcharmer 4y ago
I find it fascinating that there's so many Netbeans fans here on HN. Been doing software engineering professionally for 20 years now and ever since IntelliJ started becoming popular around 2005 almost every single dev I have ever worked with couldn't look at anything else. I've been through 7 companies and tens of projects and met a single Netbeans enthusiast.
These days Jetbrains is just a default option for C/C++, Rust (Clion), Python (Pycharm), Java (IntelliJ).
Wondering what's so specific about HN crowd that makes Netbeans so popular here.
- ilc 4y agoYou are assuming it is popular, and not that only a few vocal people are talking about it. Remember the HN community is large. I use VSCode for most things, haven't tried the Jetbrains stuff much, besides in an interview where it worked "well enough". Maybe eventually, I'll fork over and try the Jetbrains world. Maybe.