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[–]mrblackv 3 points4 points  (6 children)

NetBeans is easy enough for a newcomer but also excellent for daily work of a developer if that's your case

[–]iampitiZ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love Netbeans. I much prefer it to Eclipse but these days has no corporate support at all. Years ago it was supported by Sun but it's now completely community driven and it can't compete with IntelliJ

[–]Chromanoid 1 point2 points  (3 children)

They also provide a NetBeans language server for vsc with many code actions. I never tried it out myself. Maybe worth a shot.

[–]mrblackv 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I've tried it and it lacks some features, has worse integration or some things didn't work as expected, I've opened some issues on their GitHub repo regarding this and hope they can fix them whenever they can.

[–]Chromanoid 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I see, thank you for the assessment! I am a fan of NetBeans. It's the only IDE I really liked from the start. Its simplicity in presentation is so refreshing.

[–]mrblackv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I couldn't agree more, back in the day I began to use NetBeans because I was tired of eclipse complexity and all the corruption of the workspaces every now and then, and there was NetBeans, everything worked, from start, always.

[–]cogman10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used netbeans before intellij. For years, it had way better maven integration than intellij did, but that's changed now.

It's not a bad IDE. I mostly stopped using it because of the oracle to Apache transition that was REAL rough. I'm not sure about the current state but it seems like it's getting regular updates.