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I'm a fan of NetBeans. It isn't for everyone. Sometimes one wants something lightweight. However, NetBeans has a lot of nice things. Refactoring helpers are
by mdasen 17y ago
I'm a fan of NetBeans. It isn't for everyone. Sometimes one wants something lightweight. However, NetBeans has a lot of nice things. Refactoring helpers are wonderful. They make it so much easier to change the name of something when its meaning changes so that the code stays clean. Like many visual editors (rather than command line things like vim), it can do tabs and show a tree of files on the left pane. It supports a lot of different languages and even has some great hooks for running a project on your local machine. It can also detect some problems - unused variables, unused imports, syntax problems, etc. which means that you can catch small errors fast.
It does have its faults (like any piece of software), but it can be very helpful.
- _sh 17y agoI spent an afternoon wandering around the NetBeans profiler and have not opened Eclipse since. It has spoiled me. http://www.netbeans.org/features/java/profiler.html http://www.netbeans.org/features/java/profiler.html
- jamesbritt 17y agoI recommend NetBeans to Ruby developers who, for whatever reasons, can't get into Vim. It has really nice Ruby support, which is especially handy if you're doing Rails and want to get a grip on the mass of directories and files. Plus the GUI editor kicks ass for doing JRuby Swing stuff. Icing on the cake: There's a vi plugin. :)