2009/1/31 Steven Herod <[email protected]>: > > 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.
In regards to CPU, just disable the "Tasks" plugin. It seems to randomly scan your source code for //FIXME //TODO comments. And who really uses those anymore? For that matter, uninstalling/disabling plugins that you dont use tends to fix performance issues IMO. > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
