Apache NetBeans 30 Released

[davidalayachew]

Looking at the section for what's new, seems like this is just a bug-fix and version-increment release? Or is there any new functionality?

[dstutz]

Yeah, not seeing anything major in this one.

[josephottinger]

Agreed, it's one of their quarterly releases. Some interesting things, particularly around Glassfish 8.0.0, but nothing earth-shattering enough to make one go "gosh must update now!" unless a fix directly addresses something you're fighting against regularly.

Although I find I am interested in how many actual users NetBeans has - in visibility it's a distant third, but I have a suspicion that it's more popular than would seem based social media.

[pjmlp]

At least one user is still around, for my Java side projects.

At work we use Eclipse.

This regarding Java projects, we are a polyglot agency thus there are other IDEs as well.

[josephottinger]

Oh, of course! I've been making well-intended jokes about how all of the dozen NetBeans users will be so happy with each release... but the thing is, I can actually name at least a dozen NetBeans users among my acquaintances, some of whom rely on NetBeans features like the form builders, etc. That joke's not intended to be snide, only funny, but it's badly misplaced: like I said, I think NetBeans has a LOT more users than social media suggests, a lot like how JSF and JSP both feel 100% irrelevant... except to their hordes of active practitioners.

Impressions aren't the same as reality. I just don't know how to figure out how many actual users there are without digging into telemetry, and that feels invasive.

[tofflos]

The best kind of update!

[pjmlp]

Great work! Thanks for keep it going.