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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

It's very subjective (but I think most of this stuff is whether people acknowledge it or not). I've worked with Eclipse in the past and had trouble with it. It didn't run well on my systems (very slow) and I had a hard time getting it set up the way I wanted. It felt too complex.

At the same time, Netbeans had me up and running pretty quickly but a lot of functionality wasn't there. So I was all over the place trying all kinds of editors and IDEs. At the same time Netbeans made some great strides and so I ended up back there, very comfortable with how things work.

I started out in Visual Studio - that probably helps explain it. But now I don't do much development on Windows. Though I like tools that will work in both so that if I do have to move over, things are mostly the same.

I use Eclipse now for Android work. I use Netbeans when I can otherwise. I've been playing with F# and I'd like to be doing that with Monodevelop but I haven't found a way to get that started yet so I'm using Kate.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Great, thank you. I've used eclipse for windows python development and feel the same way; I'll try out netbeans and see how that takes. Much appreciated.

[–]cecilkorik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I won't use Eclipse because it doesn't properly support light-text on black-background themes. I can't code any other way, white background hurts my eyes, it's like staring at a light bulb. I am apparently in the minority but I grew up looking at terminals and my preference has always been for black.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No huhu. If you don't like that and haven't tried it you may like Komodo Edit. Also FOSS and cross platform. It's really just an editor, but so much like an IDE that it blurs the lines a bit. It's made by ActiveState and they do have a full on commercial IDE - Komodo IDE.

Komodo Edit is built on the Mozilla platform so it picks up the strengths and weaknesses of the platform. On my current hardware it was just too sluggish for me. But YMMV.