I'm so glad I'm not alone about this. I tried using netbeans too, and hated it within minutes. Seeing similar problems with Azureus and a few other Java applications for Windows I began to hate the language. Are graphical applications in Java ever worthwhile?
No, I hated it because it would hang and crash all the time, and many of the features would fail or break in unintuitive ways.
I'm so glad I'm not alone about this. I tried using netbeans too, and hated it within minutes. Seeing similar problems with Azureus and a few other Java applications for Windows I began to hate the language. Are graphical applications in Java ever worthwhile?