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1 Reason to Use Sublime Text 1 - I need a good Editor, not an IDE
Netbeans is great, it has changed a lot since the old days around 2002, where it was quite slow and one even had to mount filesystems into the workspace. The Netbeans rewrite that followed, the use of Ant and Maven as project files and the overall plugin quality beats Eclipse any day. The HTML5 support is great, specially the integration with JavaScript frameworks and static analyzers. I also enjoy the C++ and Assemb…
This is what I want most from a Java IDE. I find IDEs project configuration complex, arbitrary, inscrutable, and un-diffable (making version control on the project files mostly useless).
Eclipse and IntelliJ make some effort to work with Maven and Ant, but tend to get out of sync in hard to debug ways.
(I mean absolutely no disrespect towards the author and his great post, it's just that after reading it I felt I have to write down an Emacs version of that.) Six reasons to use Emacs Emacs is a great IDE for octopuses and Lisp developers, but did you also know you can use it for almost every other project? Here are 6 reasons why you should use Emacs for your projects. Emacs is at the top of a one-element list when i…
> Unlike Eclipse, Netbeans, or most others, Emacs is a really modular IDE. Considering the number of plugins that exist for Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans, the claim that emacs is more modular than all these IDE's is a bit absurd, don't you think? > Like all great open-source projects, Emacs has a very active online community. As do Eclipse and IDEA (NetBeans being a distant third, not so much). > Working on a team or al…
I don't want to sound like a jerk, but has the author tried other options?
(I mean absolutely no disrespect towards the author and his great post, it's just that after reading it I felt I have to write down an Emacs version of that.) Six reasons to use Emacs Emacs is a great IDE for octopuses and Lisp developers, but did you also know you can use it for almost every other project? Here are 6 reasons why you should use Emacs for your projects. Emacs is at the top of a one-element list when i…
> Unlike Eclipse, Netbeans, or most others, Emacs is a really modular IDE. Considering the number of plugins that exist for Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans, the claim that emacs is more modular than all these IDE's is a bit absurd, don't you think? > Like all great open-source projects, Emacs has a very active online community. As do Eclipse and IDEA (NetBeans being a distant third, not so much). > Working on a team or al…
Netbeans is great, it has changed a lot since the old days around 2002, where it was quite slow and one even had to mount filesystems into the workspace. The Netbeans rewrite that followed, the use of Ant and Maven as project files and the overall plugin quality beats Eclipse any day. The HTML5 support is great, specially the integration with JavaScript frameworks and static analyzers. I also enjoy the C++ and Assemb…
"...the use of Ant and Maven as project files..." This is what I want most from a Java IDE. I find IDEs project configuration complex, arbitrary, inscrutable, and un-diffable (making version control on the project files mostly useless). Eclipse and IntelliJ make some effort to work with Maven and Ant, but tend to get out of sync in hard to debug ways.
One of the other good things with Netbeans is using it as a platform like in rich clients. We have developed some quick and good tools on this platform and it seems to work out neatly on our overall structure.
Unfortunately, NetBeans was in the middle of an internal transition at the time (having to do with how actions are bound to keys and menu items), and I didn't get the newer way, and the module I expanded used the old keybinding method.
1 Reason to Use Sublime Text 1 - I need a good Editor, not an IDE
This is my exact use case, and I moved from ST2/3 to Atom a while ago, and haven't looked back. (that's not to say Atom doesn't suck, because it does, but it's getting better at a very brisk pace)
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> OK, how can I replace its shitty editor with something decent, like Vim or Emacs? http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/2802/jvi-vi-vim-editor-cl...
I didn't ask "how to configure its editor to use vi-like mappings", I asked "how can I replace the editor". Mere clone will not have even one third of the features and functions I use every day. NetBeans' editor is shitty not because it's not vi-like, but because it lacks plenty of editing functions fully featured Vim has.