Eclipse Vs. NetBeans

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Originally Posted by shuhao

Both of them are bloated as hell.

Netbeans is a pile of ----. I have not met a single person (online or IRL) who has anything good to say about it. No configurability, it eats ram and CPU like an IDE and acts like a text editor, crappy looking GUI

Eclipse is the lesser of 2 evil. Still very bloated, at least you get options, and the editor actually autocompletes stuff for you.

Ideally I would pick neither, but under the circumstances my vote is with Eclipse

I use Netbeans as my preferred IDE. When I want to throw together a quick java GUI, you can't beat it. And by the way, there are plug ins for it.

As far as IDEs go, I haven't had too much experience with many others (I usually only program in java, and most IDEs are for other languages. I feel a bit like a tourist). I've used MPLAB, Matlab, JCreator, XCode, Codewarrior and Bloodshed before, and I've played around with Labview, Codewrite and Eclipse.

I suppose I could say I also have used notepad, gedit and VI from time to time, but you could hardly call those IDEs.

My advice is to find something you like for the application/language you're writing, become proficient with it and stick to it. It helps when either it is the language's standard, or has a large user base along with plug-ins.