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NetBeans is slick. I just finished a small java/swing project to make a desktop data conversion tool. I don't have much experience with java and almost none wit

by dmm 13y ago

NetBeans is slick. I just finished a small java/swing project to make a desktop data conversion tool. I don't have much experience with java and almost none with IDEs but I was pleasantly surprised. I found the editor to be decent and had good emacs bindings, even enabling the "tab goes to proper indent" behavior. The debugger was very good. It was able to easily manipulate the various threads of the program and quickly find a problem. The build files that NetBeans generated were well designed and I was able to easily add some build actions. My only other experience with an IDE was visual studio in 2004 in my freshman c++ classes. That was huge pain. Nobody really understood what it was doing. And problems were regularly solved by creating a new project and copy-pasting code from the old to the new. On the other hand VS may have been great and it's the additional 10 years of experience that made the difference. haha

peterashford 13y ago
Yup. Netbeans was the IDE that finally dragged be away from Emacs. Well, at least for Java programming, I still use Emacs for pretty much everything else :o) I never quite get why there are so many people so keen on Eclipse. Always seems slow, hard to configure and (to me) less intuitive than Netbeans. Ah well, each to their own =)
- dolphenstein 13y ago
  Netbeans 8 is great for HTML5/JS work as well. Been using the beta version for AngularJS development the past 2 months.
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    Netbeans JavaScript support is great. Good enough autocomplete, integration JSLint makes you aware of possible errors as one types and there is the integration with a myriad of JS frameworks. Really nice.
    - skrowl 13y ago
      Have you tried Brackets or JetBrains WebStorm? If so, how does it compare as far as HTML/CSS/JS dev?
      - pjmlp 13y ago
        No I have not.
- welder 13y ago
  How fast is the Netbeans UI compared to IntelliJ(fast) and Eclipse(slow)? I just finished this IntelliJ plugin and wondering if anyone could use a Netbeans one: https://github.com/wakatime/jetbrains-wakatime https://github.com/wakatime/jetbrains-wakatime Anyone here use Netbeans as their primary IDE and want a similar plugin developed?
bitwize 13y ago
NetBeans is vastly underrated. It's ugly and runs like a pig, but then again so is/does Eclipse. The difference is that Eclipse's UI seems oriented to accessing the vast and confusing library of Eclipse plugins, whereas NetBeans's UI is oriented to getting shit done. NetBeans is like "Oh, what are you writing today? An enterprise app? Need a database? Boom -- installed. Need an application server? Bazinga -- installed. Need Hibernate? Zap-boopity-bop -- you get the idea. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you." It's basically the Java programming tool, and it really helps in making the fiddly bits of writing a complex Java application much more manageable for people like me, a humble programmer from the old Unix tradition. But you almost never hear of it. People are like "oooh, Eclipse, Eclipse, Eclipse, if you want to program in Java you need Eclipse!" Fuck Eclipse. The few times I tried it I ended up more confused, and I think I screwed up my install somehow. NetBeans for the win. Though when writing Android apps I still use vim or emacs.

by dmm 13y ago

peterashford 13y ago

Yup. Netbeans was the IDE that finally dragged be away from Emacs. Well, at least for Java programming, I still use Emacs for pretty much everything else :o) I never quite get why there are so many people so keen on Eclipse. Always seems slow, hard to configure and (to me) less intuitive than Netbeans. Ah well, each to their own =)

dolphenstein 13y ago
Netbeans 8 is great for HTML5/JS work as well. Been using the beta version for AngularJS development the past 2 months.
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Netbeans JavaScript support is great. Good enough autocomplete, integration JSLint makes you aware of possible errors as one types and there is the integration with a myriad of JS frameworks. Really nice.
  - skrowl 13y ago
    Have you tried Brackets or JetBrains WebStorm? If so, how does it compare as far as HTML/CSS/JS dev?
    - pjmlp 13y ago
      No I have not.
welder 13y ago
How fast is the Netbeans UI compared to IntelliJ(fast) and Eclipse(slow)? I just finished this IntelliJ plugin and wondering if anyone could use a Netbeans one: https://github.com/wakatime/jetbrains-wakatime https://github.com/wakatime/jetbrains-wakatime Anyone here use Netbeans as their primary IDE and want a similar plugin developed?

bitwize 13y ago

NetBeans is vastly underrated. It's ugly and runs like a pig, but then again so is/does Eclipse. The difference is that Eclipse's UI seems oriented to accessing the vast and confusing library of Eclipse plugins, whereas NetBeans's UI is oriented to getting shit done. NetBeans is like "Oh, what are you writing today? An enterprise app? Need a database? Boom -- installed. Need an application server? Bazinga -- installed. Need Hibernate? Zap-boopity-bop -- you get the idea. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you." It's basically the Java programming tool, and it really helps in making the fiddly bits of writing a complex Java application much more manageable for people like me, a humble programmer from the old Unix tradition. But you almost never hear of it. People are like "oooh, Eclipse, Eclipse, Eclipse, if you want to program in Java you need Eclipse!" Fuck Eclipse. The few times I tried it I ended up more confused, and I think I screwed up my install somehow. NetBeans for the win. Though when writing Android apps I still use vim or emacs.