I've been using NetBeans for years (back to 3.6 days and even before).
That said, the code scanning is really getting to me. It is abundantly
clear to me that:
1. Scanning source code should *never* block (much less hang!) any
action in the IDE (though some like refactoring should loudly warn
in such cases).
* Today it blocks all sorts of things, even "attach debugger"!
* I still get lots of hangs from trying to work while the
scanner is working
2. Re-scanning a body of source code should never cause the IDE to
temporarily lose knowledge of any class that is present the whole time
* Updates should be atomic
The NetBeans developers have taken a lot of (well deserved) heat for
slow scanning. I'd love to see the scanning get faster, but in my
opinion it is /never/ going to be fast enough for really large projects
and collections thereof to avoid addressing these points. These points
go unaddressed in each NetBeans release.
I like NetBeans' Ant integration philosophy and look-and-feel (Eclipse
looks wanky to me), etc, but the scanner is /really /obnoxious.
Soon I'll likely stop worrying about this as NetBeans' scanner is also
totally ignorant of annotation processors that generate source code,
whereas Eclipse handles this. This is likely to be the straw (or plank
rather) that breaks the camel's back.
--
Jess Holle
Jan Goyvaerts wrote:
> For me it's a matter of look & feel really. And now also for JavaFX.
> Netbeans look definitly better than Eclipse. But Eclipse is definitly
> faster and more stable. Looking up a class in 600+ class project with
> many jar in the classpath is painful in Netbeans. While this is
> immediate in Eclipse. (how do they do this ?) The editor seems to be
> more powerful too. And the number of plugins easily outnumbers those
> of Netbeans. And its startup time is horrible. That is, in windows. In
> Linux it flies. Disabling the virus scanner in windows helps a bit
> though...
>
> But still... I have to look to this all day long. So I really prefer
> it to be a bit slower and good looking than the opposite. :-)
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 00:56, Mohamed Bana <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> i'd like to hear why everyone seems to think Netbeans is better
> than Eclipse. i'm not not in agreement with the way Eclipse is
> always made to seem like the lesser of the two, somewhat
> unprofessional.
>
> - as a Linux user i can tell you Netbeans is noticeably slow
> compared to Eclipse, this is because it's using Swing. font
> rendering is also very bad.
> - it's funny how Netbeans are just starting to copy the
> functionality that Eclipse has had from a while --- e.g., mylyn.
> - Eclipse RCP is far more mature.
> - does Netbeans support OSGI? to my knowledge, IntelliJ IDEA and
> Eclipse does.
>
> —Mohamed
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