This is the fancy option, the one most developers used today for Java programming, and I can understand why. I continued loyal to NetBeans even that we had another big guy in the competition: IntelliJ IDEA. It is not that they deprecated the product, but Oracle had a different IDE at the time JDeveloper, which was the main choice. With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems from Oracle, NetBeans was stalled like many other Open source projects. So because of that, Netbeans become my default app to do my Java Programming, but Oracle came, and things change a little.
I think the first version I tried was in branch 3.x, and Sun Microsystem developed it at that time. So at that time is when I discover NetBeans. But I never thought that Eclipse was a great IDE, and it was too flexible but at the same time too complex.
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If you are in the Enterprise Software industry, you have noticed that pretty much every Developer-based tool is based on Eclipse because its licensing and its community behind make the best option.
The main choice was Eclipse at the university, but I have never been an Eclipse fan, and that has become a problem. I was always looking for the best IDE that I could find to speed up my programming tasks. Even that I first learned another less-known programming (Modula-2), I quickly jump to Java to do all the different assignments and pretty much every task on my journey as a student and later as a software engineer. I always have been a Java Developer since my time at University. Discover what are the reasons why to me, Apache NetBeans is still the best Java IDE you canĀ use Photo by Maximilian Weisbecker on Unsplash