Netbeans support of other languages makes it a winner in a mixed environment that other IDEs just don't cope with so well. I used to use IntelliJ, and it's awesome for Java work, but I also have to deal with a legacy PHP app and do SQL work and Python work. This makes Netbeans the only IDE that is practical for me at this point (I've always been shocked at how bad Eclipse is, and that the vi plugin for it is non-free, and has HUGE bugs). I would be heartbroken if Oracle decides to take Netbeans away, since 6.5, and now 6.7 beta are awesome releases that make my daily work much easier and faster. I wouldn't have even tried Netbeans again had I not heard about it on Java Posse, and the 6.5 release, and then about 6.7 supporting Maven (we just moved to maven).
Alex On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:06 AM, IngoF <ingo.frei...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, I guess they will have a good look at both JDeveloper and > Netbeans and then > keep one of the two. > I think Netbeans might be the more popular IDE at the moment in terms > of > total market share. So that's a plus for Netbeans. > And I don't really know JDeveloper but Netbeans plugin mechanism seems > to > work really great so that's maybe a good reason to make a strategic > decision in favor > of Netbeans as well. > > On May 5, 1:34 pm, kibitzer <dunl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> With Oracle's acquisition of Sun, I can't see a future for NetBeans. I >> find this extremely disturbing as (hand on heart) NetBeans is my >> favourite FOSS IDE. >> >> Am I wrong? >> >> What does the community think? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
