I’ve been a developer for more than 50 years, yes, I am an old “Salt” here
past his prime possibly, but still actively coding.
To me, the IDE is the gateway to this world, and I embraced NetBeans IDE
long, long time ago, starting with it’s Beta, to give me tools that I need to
get the job done. And NetBeans filled that breach over the decades. But now,
it seems that all I can run into is roadblocks that are preventing me from
getting my jobs done.
I updated my Linux machine with NetBeans 9, and made the unfortunate
mistake of selecting the JDK 11 because of some constraints in a module I
required to support. I was taken back to find that JavaFX integration has been
taken out In fact, I felt humiliated yesterday trying to figure out how to get
JavaFX back into the system, and still use JDK 11 on Linux.
I failed... The searches on line provided a bit here and a bit there, but
the bottom line was that I can no longer debug on NetBeans IDE, even my
compiles aren’t working, and all I see is a lot of red on all my module
sources... I tried adding the JavaFX SDK to my module paths, but still stymied.
So........ here is the question..
Why is this so darn hard for the developers.. This should be a Plugin
option, I click on in NetBeans to get my IDE working .. Developers should be
able to load the tool, and use it. Do you realize how much money, dollars,
euros, whatever, is being wasted trying to get this stuff to work on an update?
I know the Open Source community feels the pain. I know the communities job is
hard because they do support all these other things.. Maven, Gradle, PHP, Ruby
...the list goes on. We use the IDE because it can do the job.. not be an
impediment.. I’ll admit I am not as sharp as I was a decade or two ago, but I
still have better things to work on than trying to figure out how to get my IDE
back alive. ( It is, as far as I am concerned... dead in the water right now. )
Not sure what I am asking for, perhaps better Primary Language integration,
I saw tons of posts about JavaFX as being the possible GUI someday, so this is
along those lines. Sorry.. very frustrated.
