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I've never understood netbeans, why use it over intelliJ? (Honest question)

by mbell 14y ago

fusiongyro 14y ago
It's free, for one thing. IntelliJ is still for-pay if you want Java EE features, and while few of my projects are Java EE all of them use some EE features (JSF, especially). I tried IntelliJ community edition and was not very impressed. The time/cost of switching is pretty high. I'm not sure what the value is I'd be getting for that effort--better completion? More graphical ways of doing things? If I had $200 to blow on an IDE I would probably do it just to try, but I haven't even found $50 for Chocolat.
- mbell 14y ago
  The full version has a 30 day trial. I used to use Eclipse/Netbeans. I hate java and intelliJ actually makes it bearable.
  - fusiongyro 14y ago
    I don't know about you, but "try this software you don't need so that if you like it you can pay me $200 you don't have" isn't a compelling pitch. NetBeans works fine. Blacklisting HN would do twenty times more for my productivity than a better IDE.
polshaw 14y ago
I use netbeans (6.9) for python and javascript (/editing html/css). I'm not ready to make an investment in something hardcore like vim. Is there anything free that's better for this? intelliJ doesn't seem to support these with the free version.
- mbell 14y ago
  I posed my question under the guise that we were talking about Java. I don't use an IDE for JS/Python, sublime text does everything I need for them.
crag 14y ago
For PHP - I love PHPStorm (from jetBrains - the same company behind IntellJ). But it's missing one important (to me) feature that's been labeled as a critical bug for 2 12 years. And never fixed: And that's http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-2377 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-2377 "No autocompletion for php variables inside [SQL] strings" Believe it our not, I still write SQL statements in my code. So writing an UPDATE on a table with 30 fields (I didn't design the tables) is hella easier in Netbeans then PHPStorm. I don't have to worry about typo's in Netbeans. If JetBrains ever gets around to fixing this, I'll gladly switch.
- mbell 14y ago
  I had no idea netbeans even supported php.

I've never understood netbeans, why use it over intelliJ? (Honest question)

by mbell 14y ago

I've never understood netbeans, why use it over intelliJ? (Honest question)

It's free, for one thing. IntelliJ is still for-pay if you want Java EE features, and while few of my projects are Java EE all of them use some EE features (JSF, especially). I tried IntelliJ community edition and was not very impressed. The time/cost of switching is pretty high. I'm not sure what the value is I'd be getting for that effort--better completion? More graphical ways of doing things? If I had $200 to blow on an IDE I would probably do it just to try, but I haven't even found $50 for Chocolat.

mbell 14y ago
The full version has a 30 day trial. I used to use Eclipse/Netbeans. I hate java and intelliJ actually makes it bearable.
- fusiongyro 14y ago
  I don't know about you, but "try this software you don't need so that if you like it you can pay me $200 you don't have" isn't a compelling pitch. NetBeans works fine. Blacklisting HN would do twenty times more for my productivity than a better IDE.

polshaw 14y ago

I use netbeans (6.9) for python and javascript (/editing html/css). I'm not ready to make an investment in something hardcore like vim. Is there anything free that's better for this? intelliJ doesn't seem to support these with the free version.

mbell 14y ago
I posed my question under the guise that we were talking about Java. I don't use an IDE for JS/Python, sublime text does everything I need for them.

crag 14y ago

For PHP - I love PHPStorm (from jetBrains - the same company behind IntellJ). But it's missing one important (to me) feature that's been labeled as a critical bug for 2 12 years. And never fixed: And that's http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-2377 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-2377 "No autocompletion for php variables inside [SQL] strings" Believe it our not, I still write SQL statements in my code. So writing an UPDATE on a table with 30 fields (I didn't design the tables) is hella easier in Netbeans then PHPStorm. I don't have to worry about typo's in Netbeans. If JetBrains ever gets around to fixing this, I'll gladly switch.

mbell 14y ago
I had no idea netbeans even supported php.