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. [...] > > Michael > > -- > Michael Schuerig > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] Sent from my iPhone -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

