Eclipse vs. NetBeans || Sun Engineers vs. the World
A good friend of mine is getting his brains beaten out in a thread over on the server side about the Eclipse vs. Netbeans debate. It seems as though Sun Engineers are hell bent on claiming that Netbeans is a worthy project. Honestly, I’ve looked at it, its cute, but wake up people… Eclipse won that prize fight long ago. Sun is sending in a washed up fighter against the champ of the world… The people have spoken. Quit wasting time with NetBean and give me a reason to stop using Ruby on Rails!! Actully don’t… Rails is too much fun…
It’s funny how the creators of Java have completely missed the boat in the IDE and Web markets, are being completely awful to loyal Java users and then wonder why this thing called Ruby on Rails is eating their lunch…
Roman Strobl wrote:
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
Posted on 07-Feb-06 at 2:54 pm | Permalink
Ripley wrote:
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…
Posted on 07-Feb-06 at 3:19 pm | Permalink
Roman Strobl wrote:
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
Posted on 08-Feb-06 at 12:14 am | Permalink
Nathan wrote:
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
Posted on 08-Feb-06 at 1:50 am | Permalink
Ed Burnette wrote:
Nathan you’re wrong about Eclipse but I’m not going to try and convince you. Use whatever you’re most productive in.
Posted on 08-Feb-06 at 5:37 am | Permalink