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NetBeans IDE 3.5 Beta

Posted by michael on from the jamaican-blue-mountain dept.

Rob writes "We are pleased to announce the availability of the beta version of NetBeans IDE 3.5 release (codenamed Tegal). This release is focused on performance improvements, especially in the area of UI responsiveness. The binary and source distributions in various formats have been uploaded onto the website. We encourage all Java developers to download, try, test the bits, report problems and provide feedback. Also check out the new netbeans.org website design."

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  1. Re:why IDEs? by stj · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Well, there are some geniuses that can visualize complex, 2000 files, 1mln lines of code software design and remember all components. There are some who can possibly write this whole thing in edlin and not miss a character, compile and voila - there you have a perfect operating system, word processing application, VLSI design package. The only problem with them is that they are stubbornly hiding in some caves. I have never seen any.

    I appreciate IDEs for:

    functions' and variables' definitions at the mouse pointer,

    API descriptions - ditto,

    built-in extensive debugging support with good data visualization,

    possiblity to automate obvious actions - like CVS updates, compilations - likelihood of typing rm -rf src at 4am decreases dramatically

    in many cases - really, really good support for collaborative program development,

    possible dozen other things I don't remember right now but that come in handy now and then.

    I've written large programs in vi, I've used IDEs starting from Turbo C 2.0 (even fixed a bug in that one). There is absolutely no advantage of vi over any IDE except for relatively small size, there are numerous advantages of good IDEs over vi. NetBeans is surprisingly good as a total freeware. While Eclipse looks simpler and will be definitely more responsive looking just at the GUI screenshots, I do appreciate some differences from Eclipse.

    yeah, bog me down for trolling ;)

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