See Round Two of this battle: Eclipse vs NetBeans: Round 2. (It’s better)
It’s been an ongoing struggle between the developers at our company of what IDE is the best. We have had guys who swear by Eclipse, TextMate, NetBeans and vim. I originally started programming in e (a TextMate clone for Windows) and then moved onto Eclipse, where I have stayed for years. Just as soon as I thought I had won all developers over to Eclipse, Zach Wood goes and does this to me.
He was the last guy holding out on the war and religiously swore by TextMate and then last week decided he was going to jump to NetBeans (for whatever reason). Of course, this week he challenged me this week to trying it out. His main complaint, which I do not agree with, is that Eclipse is, "Too difficult to configure." Yeah, bogus.
At any rate, I’ve given it this week in development. There’s a few things that I really don’t like about it:
- It practically crashes my computer when I add pre-existing (and large) new projects.
- Features feel clunkier than Eclipse.
- Color profiles are super hard to configure. This inheritance crap screws up left and right.
Those are my biggest complaints. I haven’t had time to setup any plugins yet, but generally things are acceptable. I think I may enjoy using NetBeans, but I’m still holding my reserve on this one. I’ll include my color profile at a later date once I figure it out better. Perhaps if you know the secret to unlocking this mystical part of the application, you could help me out. 