Today I was directed to a satisfaction survey on the NetBeans website
after starting NetBeans 6. I expresses my disdain about the product,
said that the current setup does not allow me to get my work down (I'm
still using NB 5.5.1 for my Java development) but that I have to admit
that the whole documentation as well as the overall speed is satisfying.
Then I got curious to the end results of the survey, couldn't find any,
but I did stumble upon this page with lots of success stories about
excited developers who've (re)discovered NetBeans:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1179.
After reading that whole page I was basically left with one simple
question: "And what about Java?".
I quote from the page: "Developers continue to rave about NetBeans 6.0
IDE features--its sup****t for Ruby and C++, the debugger, the easy
installation process and more.". There isn't much changed with regards
to the installation, NB5.5.1 also has a good debugger and then what ?
Reading on there are a few success stories. Funny though how those
reflect on the IDE as a whole, RoR or C++. Reading on again we see 4
more stories: "Amazing RoR sup****t", "Cleaner, slimmer, more focused IDE
than Eclipse" and finally "A lot of features".
Cool. SO like, why am I wondering why I don't read so many success
stories which are fully related to Java ?
Heck, here I am utilizing NB6 as we speak to debug a PHP powered
website, and its doing a pretty good job as well, apart from the
sometimes very annoying delays its causing me. But thats a minor issue,
and only happening very s****adically.
Still... Is NetBeans ****fting their focus ? I have to wonder. It would
explain something about my horror experiences where (IMO) im****tant Java
related features like autocomment (javadoc administration) and pattern
sup****t (javabean administration) were removed. While I don't consider
NB6 to be a decent Java editor I have to admit its doing well on PHP.
Errr... I think I'll stop here :P
With kind regards,
Peter
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