Do we have any Netbeans users here ? It would be good to hear abit about the good/bad stuff (Thinking Java development mostly). How good/bad is it compared to IntelliJ ?
I spent years using NetBeans, then Eclipse, then IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, and now back to NetBeans. The features that made me return were having full C and C++ support (at the time, now less supported) and super-easy remote debugging. Those features let me write, build, and debug a Java application that interfaced with a Linux kernel device driver on an ARM Kobo Touch e-reader. Neither Eclipse nor IntelliJ IDEA could do that so easily.
And as mentioned in another comment, the direct support for the Apache Maven POM can make life easier, without the messy import required by the others.
With the new Flat Look-and-Feel with dark mode and the generally much better font rendering in Java, it finally looks great, too. There was a decade-long ugly period, though, which was one of the reasons I was desperately seeking alternatives.
I used NetBeans for C++ dev as well. But I had to stop several/many versions ago. They hard-coded a bunch of C++ version stuff, and it stopped getting updated. So when C++ was updated, beyond that, I stopped using NetBeans.
I use NetBeans, never used IntelliJ so can't provide a comparison.
Main reason that I use it is that Eclipse isn't built for the operating system that I use and is hard to port. I would like to see more modelling features in NetBeans, there are several free and commercial tools built on top of Eclipse, the documentation on XML stuff in NetBeans didn't match the implementation the last time I looked at writing a plugin myself.
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Do we have any Netbeans users here ? It would be good to hear abit about the good/bad stuff (Thinking Java development mostly). How good/bad is it compared to IntelliJ ?
I spent years using NetBeans, then Eclipse, then IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, and now back to NetBeans. The features that made me return were having full C and C++ support (at the time, now less supported) and super-easy remote debugging. Those features let me write, build, and debug a Java application that interfaced with a Linux kernel device driver on an ARM Kobo Touch e-reader. Neither Eclipse nor IntelliJ IDEA could do that so easily.
And as mentioned in another comment, the direct support for the Apache Maven POM can make life easier, without the messy import required by the others.
With the new Flat Look-and-Feel with dark mode and the generally much better font rendering in Java, it finally looks great, too. There was a decade-long ugly period, though, which was one of the reasons I was desperately seeking alternatives.
I used NetBeans for C++ dev as well. But I had to stop several/many versions ago. They hard-coded a bunch of C++ version stuff, and it stopped getting updated. So when C++ was updated, beyond that, I stopped using NetBeans.
I've since progressed to VisualCode and CMake.
I use NetBeans, never used IntelliJ so can't provide a comparison.
Main reason that I use it is that Eclipse isn't built for the operating system that I use and is hard to port. I would like to see more modelling features in NetBeans, there are several free and commercial tools built on top of Eclipse, the documentation on XML stuff in NetBeans didn't match the implementation the last time I looked at writing a plugin myself.