Eclipse Vs. NetBeans

[carrillo694]

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

NetBeans autocompletes too.

One issue I have with NetBeans is that it has a "main project selection" feature, whereby you must select the project you want to deploy to your robot as the "main project." However, when you open a saved project, it does not automatically consider that newly opened project the "main" project, which can cause you to accidentally load the wrong code. Eclipse does away with this "main" project concept.