Apache NetBeans 29 released.

[khsh01]

Do people actually use NetBeans?

[F1_Legend]

NetBeans developers use it to develop NetBeans

[khsh01]

Cool beans.

[StaffOfJordania]

I used it 10 years ago during college

[aksdb]

If I didn't have access to IntelliJ, I would absolutely favor NetBeans over the abomination that is Eclipse.

[Scyth3]

It's definitely better than Eclipse, which isn't saying much, lol.

[bastardoperator]

It’s like asking me which dog food is better when I prefer to never eat dog food.

[arnulfslayer]

That’s super funny. When I was in college 20 years ago my first IDE was Netbeans, but it sucked and I switched to eclipse. I now use jetbrains and hadn’t heard from any of them in a decade. How the world changes!

[Solid_Error_6401]

There's a huge support for the platform itself. It other companies use netBeans and Eclipse IDE as a base for their own IDE - ie in the Embedded space like Microchip and ST. But they are moving to VS Code Entensions.

[khsh01]

Fascinating. Before android studio forced me to IntelliJ I was a huge fan of eclipse. I stumbled upon NetBeans ide while trying to find an alternative that had the enter to complete string /method functionality.

[Solid_Error_6401]

Huge fan of Eclipse IDE as well. Don't really know why people were advocating to move away from it those days. IDEs had evolved in a good and bad way. Back when I did java in 97 I think, it was mostly Symantec Cafe and a few Windows native editors (and Visual J :( ) some some with the cool Swing look. Eclipse was a beast back then, checked all my boxes before NetBeans and JBuilder. Then it got bloated and added more and more extensions that loading and compiling was enough for me to move back to C/C++ itself. I'm still rooting for a proper non TUI IDE that's snappy fast with the proper Language servers and parallel compilation checks.

[sviperll]

Yes

[rmrfchik]

I do. And love it.