I've used Netbeans exclusively as my IDE for Rails, Grails and JavaFX coding for the past few months on Mac.
It has its quirks in regard to the registration issue, and often seems to consume a great deal of CPU, but since I haven't had a particularly good experience with Eclipse either and lack the $$$ to shell out for IntelliJ, its all roundabouts and swings as far as I'm concerned. Across the board quality of IDE's gets me down, by the time you string a few plugins together I seem to spend time chasing ghosts or engaging in "right click, left click, open, close, refresh, restart, do work" semi-superstitious usage patterns. On Jan 31, 9:43 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > Even after the obscure segmentation fault I mentioned in another > thread, netbeans is unusable on mac os x. I don't understand why the > posse sings netbeans' praises so, especially considering that most of > them have macs. > > here's a list of things that bugged the hell out of me in the first 2 > minutes: > > - the install isn't mac-like. It creates a directory in /Applications > and then puts in a single .app file in there. Why not just dump this > in /Applications directly? That's what every other mac app does. Not a > show stopper, but shows lack of trying on the mac platform. > > - Nothing is remembered. Everytime I boot netbeans, it'll ask me to > register. I can click 'never register' until I'm blue in the face. No > luck. This is a show stopper. > > - hg isn't shipped with mac os x, and it isn't in netbeans either. > Why not? It's open source. Python's already there, at least on os x > leopard, so it can't be that hard. Even if you do install hg, netbeans > can't find it. You have to manually go to the terminal, create > a .MacOSX dir in your home file, and then an environment.plist, add / > usr/local/bin there, and *LOG IN AGAIN*. Even technical users > shouldn't be subjected to that kind of abuse. > > When your product takes over an hour to get working properly, you're > doing it wrong. > > Verdict: Netbeans on mac is a toy project. Use if you are the type of > person that likes to write their own XF86Config files. Which, if you > own a mac, probably means nobody. > > Come on guys. These problems can't be all that hard to solve, and I > really want netbeans to succeed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
