I first chose the Eclipse keyboard configuration, allowing me to find back a familiar interface. They are quite complete, yet not overwhelming. 9.0.3 on Windows 7 with 8 GB of memory) and, as usual in a first contact, I went to the settings, to get a first feel of the capabilities of the application. Perhaps it was less mature than now, or perhaps I didn’t try hard enough, but I went back to my Eclipse quite quickly. Secondly, I tried IntelliJ IDEA some years ago, and wasn’t convinced.
But then, that’s something that I would use at work, and couldn’t use at home (I have zero software budget…). Of course, there is chance my company finally pays for the software, if it was a real productivity tool. First, it is a payware, something I usually avoid. It wasn’t so bad, but still a bit frustrating, with no renaming of local variables, loosing the capability to drag’n’drop code in CSS or HTML editors (a long-standing bug…), and some other frustrations.Īt first, I was a bit reluctant. When I had to code JavaScript (with AngularJS, how original!) at work, for a new project, I naturally tried to use Eclipse, with an Angular plugin. Now, NetBeans is more versatile, but now I know Eclipse well, with its quirks, warts and all, so I remain there. I tried NetBeans, and appreciated it, but at the time, it was Java-centric so I went back to Eclipse instead, more polyglot. For Java coding, I elected Eclipse as my main IDE.