I am currently developing/maintating a POS system for my University. I have found that when I am working with a full-fledged application with more than 70K lines of code and using many third party libraries, anything short of an IDE is pure hell.
Our entire project is managed using NetBeans.
I do however, find that when I am doing projects for the CS classes(which runs at a few hundred lines of code and usually does not use other libraries), NetBeans a little bulky and slow.
I guess what I am trying to say is, using NetBeans for a HelloWorld program wont do you much good, but when you are 12 foot deep inside the code that someone else wrote, and your are trying to figure out why the hell pressing a button causes the application to throw up a NummPointerException, an IDE is practically a necessity.
Re:So why is Gentoo the right choice for this?
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I am afraid this is going to be a "me-too" post.
I have found Gentoo very easy to maintain once I have it up and running. Granted, compiling does take long, but atleast my system does not get corrputed over time. I rememeber the RPM nightmares I had to endure before I found Gentoo. I also like the fact that I was able to learn much more about the inner workings of linux.
Applications that are optimized for my machine, atleast in my case, is just a bonus and not the defining reason why I run Gentoo on my desktop.
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I am currently developing/maintating a POS system for my University. I have found that when I am working with a full-fledged application with more than 70K lines of code and using many third party libraries, anything short of an IDE is pure hell. Our entire project is managed using NetBeans. I do however, find that when I am doing projects for the CS classes(which runs at a few hundred lines of code and usually does not use other libraries), NetBeans a little bulky and slow. I guess what I am trying to say is, using NetBeans for a HelloWorld program wont do you much good, but when you are 12 foot deep inside the code that someone else wrote, and your are trying to figure out why the hell pressing a button causes the application to throw up a NummPointerException, an IDE is practically a necessity.
I am afraid this is going to be a "me-too" post. I have found Gentoo very easy to maintain once I have it up and running. Granted, compiling does take long, but atleast my system does not get corrputed over time. I rememeber the RPM nightmares I had to endure before I found Gentoo. I also like the fact that I was able to learn much more about the inner workings of linux. Applications that are optimized for my machine, atleast in my case, is just a bonus and not the defining reason why I run Gentoo on my desktop.