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  Re: Proliferation of IDEs Andrew J <aj@f-m.fm> - 2019-07-04 02:16 -0400

#38995 — Re: Proliferation of IDEs

Stefan Ram wrote:
> Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> writes:
>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.help,sci.image.processing,sci.engr.color,rec.photo.digital,rec.photo.darkroom
> 
>    Why are you posting this to rec.photo.darkroom?
> 
>> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 10:11:08 -0500, dale wrote:
>>> Is Netbeans an acceptable IDE?
>> Yes, but it's a very distant #3 with the top spots going to Eclipse and
>> IntelliJ IDEA, #1 being up to personal taste. If you got a choice, pick
>> either Eclipse or IDEA, but if you are stuck with Netbeans, thats okay too.
> 
>    Here's another point of view:
> 
> |38% (348 votes) - Eclipse
> |11% (106 votes) - IntelliJ IDEA
> |44% (406 votes) - NetBeans
> |1% (5 votes) - Another IDE
> |2% (19 votes) - A text editor
> |4% (33 votes) - It depends on what I'm working on
> |1% (8 votes) - Other IDE
> community.oracle.com/blogs/editor/2014/02/11/poll-result-top-3-java-ides-really-do-dominate-developer-desktops
> 
> 

I've used all of the big three at workplaces, as well as a couple 
Eclipse offshoots (STS and Rational Application Developer).  To make an 
analogy to operating systems:

  - IntelliJ is BSD.  It's consistently designed, polished, and 
powerful, with intelligent default settings.  It's a pleasure to work 
in.  Its benefits tend to be of the "victory by a thousand small 
improvements" sort, and often are in the realm of refactoring tools.
  - Eclipse is Linux.  It's extremely configurable and customizeable. 
But its design by a disparate group shows; there are many defaults that 
don't make sense (e.g. it was by far the last of the three to show line 
numbers by default), and there are enough rough edges causing things 
such as deploying to your local web server to fail to be frustrating - 
although it is improving in that regard.
  - NetBeans is Windows.  It isn't as powerful as IntelliJ, or as 
configurable as Eclipse, but it makes the things you need to do often 
easy to do, and is more friendly to new/moderately experienced users 
than Eclipse.  Though I will note that it stumbled significantly with 
the transition to Apache, although NetBeans 10 is much closer to 
NetBeans 8 in quality than 9 was.  In the analogy, NetBeans 9 would be 
Windows ME.

Overall I prefer IntelliJ, with NetBeans second, but the difference 
isn't great enough for me to justify buying a license and switching to 
IntelliJ for my personal projects.

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