Re: Python Donation

2022-01-01 Thread mike james
er thread, to invite people who would like to help > supporting other programming languages for NetBeans and organise on how to > do that. > > John. > > On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 16:12, mike james > wrote: > > > As a user who has contemplated trying to help out - this ent

Re: Python Donation

2021-12-31 Thread mike james
As a user who has contemplated trying to help out - this entire exchange is sad. NetBeans was only recently by far the best C/C+ IDE and its support of other languages was a big plus point for using it. I now have had to retreat to Visual Studio Code (yuk) simply because I can use it for multiple

Re: Code One Java IDE Wars

2019-08-06 Thread mike james
I use Visual Studio Code and I can report that it is an over complex mess. It isn't a IDE it is a code editor with addons that make it sometimes appear to be something more. Trying to work out how to do anything with VSC is difficult - and if you ask how to do it you get nothing but put downs from

Re: Installers -- making them official for 11.1?

2019-05-30 Thread mike james
See I told you it was confusing. I know I'm going on about beginners a lot but you really do need to target them. You have got the experienced seasoned user and they aren't going anywhere unless there is a really good reason but the future is in the beginner. If they go off to IntelliJ, Eclipse or

Re: Installers -- making them official for 11.1?

2019-05-30 Thread mike james
; > > > > More from others, welcome. > > > > > > Gj > > > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:55 AM mike james < > > mike.ja...@infomaxgroup.co.uk > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi >

Re: Installers -- making them official for 11.1?

2019-05-30 Thread mike james
Hi I'm new so tell me if I'm doing something wrong/odd. Can I just say that while experienced programmers have no problems with "unzip this" and so on NetBeans is a very attractive IDE for the complete beginner and an installer lowers the barrier to them getting started with NetBeans in