I agree. I have been using NetBeans since it was called Forte and both
it and Java were owned and managed by Sun. I think I was up to version
8.2 when management switched to Apache and a LOT of things changed. At
the same time, almost all of the Swing apps I had produced with earlier
versions were made obsolete by a switch from in-house to vendor-provided
web site and cloud-hosted database with a different structure. A
different change obsoleted the collection of integration utilities I had
been keeping going.
Now I am learning Groovy and AngularJS and Netbeans 11 and there are a
lot of challenges but since I really can't multitask effectively, I try
to work on one thing at a time.
Don
On 3/9/20 2:08 PM, Neil C Smith wrote:
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 15:16, Paul Szudzik <pszud...@throwarock.com> wrote:
I see streams of notes that are asking questions about compatibility. (
The latest straw is the Ant image ... ) I see how once the major players in
NetBeans get on a wagon, the trail off is almost impossible. If you’re new to
NetBeans, perhaps this is a good trend. If you have dealt with NetBeans as
long as I have.. it becomes more than just an annoyance. It almost easier to
find another IDE to settle in on, as the amount of work to transfer 100+
projects, probably more, from old NetBeans to new NetBeans is formidable.
Personally, I think you're putting the "blame" firmly in the wrong
place. Java is changing, JavaFX is changing, build tools are evolving
- this is all for the better in my opinion, but it requires learning
new things. And switching IDE will not change that, and will probably
make for even more annoyance.
As Emi has already mentioned, there are numerous ways of working the
old way, with a Java 8 JDK, possibly even with JavaFX bundled, for a
number of years yet (although that's maybe not much use if you like
what Gluon is doing). None of the support for the older ways of
working have been removed from the IDE as far as I know.
To paraphrase your domain, maybe throw the rock elsewhere?! :-)
Best wishes,
Neil
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