Michael Schuerig wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2010, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> >> How recently have you used NetBeans?
>> >
>> > Last week! I just found it too big and bloated for Rails needs
>> 
>> I agree with that.  I just don't agree that it's slow and clunky in 
>> general, at least on Mac OS.
> 
> This seems like the perfect time to lodge my complaints ;-)
> 
> I've been using NetBeans 6.9 for a couple of weeks now and it seems to
> be disintegrating over time

Yeah, my recollection last time I used it with Rails was that the 
integration wasn't terribly good.  Oy.

[...]

> And, worst of all, at times the editor completely freezes for
> from 30 secs to over a minute.

I have occasionally seen this on Mac OS when I've been doing very 
resource-heavy stuff.

> 
> For none of these I've found a way to cure it. Particularly the freezing
> problem seems already to have been reported as a bug more than 50 times.

NetBeans' core team seem to be very skilled programmers, but often 
somewhat unresponsive to bug reports.  Rather like some other core 
teams... :)
> 
> Yes, I'm still using NetBeans. The alternatives (on Linux) such as Emacs
> and Eclipse/Aptana are no more attractive and I've used them both
> before. 

There are other alternatives for Linux.  In descending order, I'd 
recommend KomodoEdit, jEdit, or gEdit.

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> 
> Michael
> 
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