On 4/12/2010 1:11 PM, Richard Holmes wrote:
Hi Ramon,
I don't know NetBeans, any good? The last time I looked was
> about 10 years ago.
Richard,
To be honest, I am torn between Eclipse and NetBeans. At some point I
had both IDEs running concurrently on the same source files, just for
fun. I recall I had to make all my editing in one side (Eclipse?)
because such IDE is constantly watching files being modified.
For beginners -and anyone in a hurry- I would definitely recommend
NetBeans, you can have stuff up and running in no time. Another
advantage is that the GUI is very similar to Visual Studio.
With additional plugins, both IDEs support C++ programming, and also
working from a Windows front end, with the compilation done on Unix
(gcc, gdb, etc.)
Now, if you need to develop Java GUIs with some interface builder, you
have to go with Eclipse. There is a commercial (not too expensive)
plugin from Instantiations of such quality that I have never seen
anything similar. Your typed code becomes widgets and your drawn widgets
become code. NetBeans has some funny hack: they insert the widget
parameters inside the comments.
That kind of programming can only be done properly with programming
languages that have "reflection". Java is one such language.
I guess we are veering off topic... :-)
-Ramon
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