Comments on: Eclipse vs. NetBeans || Sun Engineers vs. the World

By: Ed Burnette

Ed Burnette — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:37:42 +0000

Nathan you’re wrong about Eclipse but I’m not going to try and convince you. Use whatever you’re most productive in.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:50:48 +0000

Netbeans is a functional, feature packed, well integrated *actual IDE*.

Without paying for some product based on eclipse: what is eclipse? A very memory hungry, not very functional text editor. Vi, notepad, pico, wordpad won variations of the “text editor” prize a long time ago, yet eclipse still keeps trying..

IntelliJ and netbeans are actual IDEs, not trying to be some sort of environment for plug ins. Sure there are some half baked plugins *somewhere* on the web that do *some* of what you need to typically do, but with netbeans it comes with all that stuff built in.

Anyhow, my 2c on the matter.

Nath

By: Roman Strobl

Roman Strobl — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:14:55 +0000

Well I always thought that size of community matters and number of mailing subscribers is a good measurement. So you think that Tim O’Reilly is wrong and there’s nothing on NetBeans 5.0? Nevermind.

Btw, I also like Ruby on Rails… it’s a nice web framework. Yes, I’m a Sun employee and like Ruby on Rails

By: Ripley

Ripley — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:19:04 +0000

You’re funny. You are using mailing list volume and the number of times Netbeans was searched for at Yahoo??

You guys are still way behind, and the fact that you get excited by secondary things that aren’t really measurable or accurate tells me that you are clinging on to some reason to continue development…

By: Roman Strobl

Roman Strobl — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:54:32 +0000

Sorry, but that’s not what our community thinks. Ask anyone of the 350.000 people on our mailing lists. See also:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/whats_up_with_netbeans.html