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I always favored NetBeans because it is open-source and seemed less cluttered than Eclipse, and anyway I don't use a ton of advanced IDE features; I mostly do p
by jasperry 2y ago
I always favored NetBeans because it is open-source and seemed less cluttered than Eclipse, and anyway I don't use a ton of advanced IDE features; I mostly do personal projects. I picked it up again recently because it's the default IDE for JMonkeyEngine.
But out of the box at least, the editing experience feels quite primitive. It only offers completion candidates after the dot, and I was spending too much time adjusting indentation manually, because after the initial auto-indent, <tab> doesn't cycle through indentation levels but just inserts tabs. NetBeans may support those features, so feel free to correct.
- mystifyingpoi 2y agoI think IntelliJ blows out the competition on the out-of-the-box experience. "Open project" works with a regular folder, no importing dance, auto-detects Java build tools, for anything needing a plugin, there is a popup that you approve with one click. Nothing comes close.