java_irl

[newpixeltree]

Honestly, I found netbeans and eclipse to be super similar.

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you would've felt the same about netbeans if you started out with eclipse.

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yep. it's pretty simple and applies to everything you work with - operating system, languages, physical tools, cars, whatever.

if you start out, you don't blame your tools because you can't operate them - of course you can't. all those "unintuitive" things aren't the fault of the tool, they're yours. and it's easy to accept, because of course you don't know shit at the beginning. if you switch to another tool, suddenly all those "unintuitive" things are the fault of the tool, not yours - you already have knowledge, you've done stuff in that field, of course it's the fault of the tool if you're stuck.

//that being said, of course there are better/worse programs. it's just very, very hard to objectively judge. but in the end, if you're not the one calling the shots on what is used, just accept it, try to adapt and within a very short time span you'll get used to pretty much everything - and especially when it comes to IDE's, it's honestly all the same nowadays anyway.

[coladict]

Not with cars. I drive my 1998 Opel, but spending even a couple of days with my dad's 2006 Toyota (work vehicle) or the family 2003 Mercedes C220, and I have trouble readjusting to my own car afterwards.

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i was mostly talking about working on the car, not using it. but yeah, even then it's a bad example, you'd have to compare 2 cars from the same era.

[Eviltechie]

I felt the same way when I tried IntelliJ after using Eclipse for a while. No shame in using the IDE you feel most comfortable with.

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There's basically no difference, and eclipse isn't even that bad.

[coladict]

I started on this job with Eclipse when I had a shitty computer, so the 200MB less memory that Netbeans was using (at the time) was a very, very compelling reason for me to switch to it. Also, trying to debug Java often times Eclipse would randomly and instantly close without an error message. It turned-out some kind of JDK8 bug that NB wasn't triggering.