2015 Eclipse Client Reccomendations for Java

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by lopsided98

This is a little off topic, but does anyone know if we will be forced to use Eclipse. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to set up something in Netbeans, especially since the robot uses Java SE 8, even if it not officially supported. I just prefer the feel of Netbeans over Eclipse.

The eclipse projects use ant build scripts, which you can use to run from Netbeans. Without doing anything else, you could modify and deploy programs in Netbeans. You'd want to get the templates started in eclipse or robotbuilder, however, unless someone ports those over.