Java IDE: NetBeans 5.5 beats Eclipse
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As a software development dummie, I’m not sure I have the legitimacy to strike an opinion about programming environments. But you know what? I don’t really care.
I’ve recently been developing on both integrated development interfaces, and to me, NetBeans 5.5 by far outperforms its long term rival Eclipse. I acknowledge both are really good. Eclipse, thanks to the size of its community and the stability of the initial code supplied by IBM Corp., has more plug-ins to offer to motivated software developers than NetBeans (it’s like Firefox vs. Opera). On the other hand, and to support my case: we live in a world in which nobody cares anymore about the code lines lying behind the actual software. People use software like a service, and what really matters most is the human – machine interface. Take Apple Inc.: they master the whole friendly-HMI development process. People actually buy Apple products because people’s eyes love Apple products’ material design and software interfaces.
In this respect, NetBeans has implemented a tool that I find amazing. NetBeans actually allows software developers to devise HMIs visually, through dragging and dropping – exactly like in Visual Studio for instance (although I find Visual Studio much simpler of use: you can almost write a software without knowing anything about software development).
On top of that, bear in mind the fact that, in Java for instance (using the swing or awt library, same business), hacking a proper interface is bloddy tedios – and you’ll end up having NetBeans beating Eclipse for this only reason (like, in my humble opinion and thanks to the convenience of its HMI, Opera beats FireFox despite FireFox’s tremendous plug-in library). Enough for me to make a purchasing decision worth 0$, 0€, 0£: go for NetBeans rather than Eclipse.
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