Hi All, I just read the whole email thread. Being an end user of netbeans for around 6 years now, I have to say I agree with @Christian that there is a huge lack of innovation from netbeans.
Netbeans does have to catch up with intellij and VS code. IMHO taking a sideways route rather than catching up maynot help developers. These days every developer works on multiple languages and tools and it's a hassle to switch IDEs. Even the community version of idea supports scala, kotlin, rust, etc. Netbeans should at least have support of popular JVM languages such as kotlin, scala, etc. Now I know achieving all this is not easy being an open source project but even the latest java version support comes after a few months of official JDK release in netbeans. Regards, Rahul Khandelwal
