Eclipse vs NetBeans

I have been using Eclipse for countless years now, but I see people use NetBeans occasionally. I've always preferred Eclipse, but I just learned that NetBeans supports multiple languages, such as Java and PHP. I just wanted to know people's personal preference of IDE, and why they prefer one over the other.

Is this for Lua or for another language? I've always used Eclipse, but only for Java - and I think it's quite superior to NetBeans, even though I have NetBeans installed. I use Sublime Text 2 for Lua, but if I want something that will compile Lua outside of CC, I use Lua Development Tools - which is basically Eclipse for Lua.

GravityScore, on 26 January 2013 - 04:57 PM said:

Is this for Lua or for another language? I've always used Eclipse, but only for Java - and I think it's quite superior to NetBeans, even though I have NetBeans installed. I use Sublime Text 2 for Lua, but if I want something that will compile Lua outside of CC, I use Lua Development Tools - which is basically Eclipse for Lua.

I'm talking about Java. But I've heard NetBeans works for PHP, and frankly I'm not a fan of using DreamWeaver for anything but HTML/CSS.

I haven't even got Dreamweaver, but it seems like a nice program for HTML/CSS. Another program that looks good for HTML/CSS is Coda.

I also use Sublime Text 2 for PHP, but I'm looking for alternatives. I also use it for HTML/CSS, but it's absolutely crap with that. Really want an alternative for that.

You also know that Eclipse has a C, C++, and a few other languages that I can't remember version?

GravityScore, on 26 January 2013 - 05:12 PM said:

I haven't even got Dreamweaver, but it seems like a nice program for HTML/CSS. Another program that looks good for HTML/CSS is Coda.

I also use Sublime Text 2 for PHP, but I'm looking for alternatives. I also use it for HTML/CSS, but it's absolutely crap with that. Really want an alternative for that.

You also know that Eclipse has a C, C++, and a few other languages that I can't remember version?

Dreamweaver is nice for HTML/CSS, but it's expensive as shit! Dreamweaver CS5 (my version) is $480 USD. I'll look into Sublime Text, as I'm interested in learning PHP. Thanks!

Dreamweaver has been pretty much crap on all the versions I've used. I actually liked the really old (like 2001) version I used better than the newer version my school had. Either way, not a big fan of dreamweaver.

More on topic, I haven't used Netbeats, so I've gotta say Eclipse. But my favorite for everyhting it supports is Visual Studio, despite being expensive as hell (Free student software rocks!). Other than that I generally just use Notepad++.

I use Netbeans because Eclipse wouldn't install on this laptop.
I used to use Eclipse, and I probably did prefer it, however now that I have gotten use to Netbeans I doubt I would change back even if I did get it to work on this laptop..

also, visual studios (at least the express versions) are 100% free?
No expenses there and they work just fine :P/> (I haven't used them as extensively as Netbeans however)

GO NETBEANS! It looks much nicer, and has more features than Eclipse. It's just a shame that MCP won't compile a project for Netbeans.

I'm same as GravityScore, I use Sublime Text 2 for Lua. But I use Eclipse for Java. But if I get the choice I will never go past using Xcode, especially for C derived languages (C, C++, Obj-C).

Eclipse can do MUCH more languages than Java though. If you get the Eclipse EE (i think its that one) package it can do HEAPS more than Java development, including all web based dev and scripting languages, oh and C like languages (except ObjC). You can even get a plugin for Eclipse to do Lua.

Ermahgerd. Xcode is heavenly…..

I wuv you Obj-C <3

:P/>

I've recently started Java with netbeans combined with telnet communication. So far I have gotten it to connect to myself xD

What are the differences between the two, out of curiosity?

Last time I tried Netbeans the Java refactoring was horrible compared to Eclipse. I use refactoring tools constantly, so it made Netbeans unusable for me.

I have to use the Eclipse CDT package for C++ at my uni. So it's really practical to use it for my Java projects as well. Using one tool for both helps me to get familiar with all the extra tools it offers. I'm not sure what NetBeans offers, but I like the way Eclipse offers all the plugins that offer git support, profiling tools, automatic doxygen building, etc.

GravityScore, on 26 January 2013 - 05:12 PM said:

I haven't even got Dreamweaver, but it seems like a nice program for HTML/CSS. Another program that looks good for HTML/CSS is Coda.

I also use Sublime Text 2 for PHP, but I'm looking for alternatives. I also use it for HTML/CSS, but it's absolutely crap with that. Really want an alternative for that.

You also know that Eclipse has a C, C++, and a few other languages that I can't remember version?

I took a look at Coda, but it looks like its only for Mac.

billysback, on 26 January 2013 - 09:33 PM said:

I use Netbeans because Eclipse wouldn't install on this laptop.
I used to use Eclipse, and I probably did prefer it, however now that I have gotten use to Netbeans I doubt I would change back even if I did get it to work on this laptop..

also, visual studios (at least the express versions) are 100% free?
No expenses there and they work just fine :P/> (I haven't used them as extensively as Netbeans however)

Yes, the express versions are free, and have most of the functionality. They lack some of the more advanced functionality and templates (Although I think if you do all the legwork yourself instead of using the IDE, it will still compile with those features).

Eclipse for java because MCP give support for that
and noteppad++ for lua, php, configurations and other stuff(i have replaced notepad.exe in windows so its default)

Dlcruz129, on 26 January 2013 - 05:07 PM said:

GravityScore, on 26 January 2013 - 04:57 PM said:

Is this for Lua or for another language? I've always used Eclipse, but only for Java - and I think it's quite superior to NetBeans, even though I have NetBeans installed. I use Sublime Text 2 for Lua, but if I want something that will compile Lua outside of CC, I use Lua Development Tools - which is basically Eclipse for Lua.

I'm talking about Java. But I've heard NetBeans works for PHP, and frankly I'm not a fan of using DreamWeaver for anything but HTML/CSS.

What a random thing to say. Who mentioned Dreamweaver? You say it like it's the only other choice for doing PHP.

I've tried both.

Eclipse for some reason I didn't quite like… Probably at the time their C# support or what ever language I was looking into just didn't work the way I wanted it to. I was learning from a book and Eclipse seemed to function slightly differently than what the book was telling me to try and do. Never really looked back at it after that.

NetBeans was nice, I liked it's design and functionality for Java when I was looking into that. It worked quite well.

I also gave Code::Blocks a try which is great for C++ if you're a C++ programmer, but currently I use Notepad++ for Lua scripting. It's got highlighting for pretty much everything so it's done me quite well so far.

Mikeemoo, on 05 February 2013 - 09:15 PM said:

Dlcruz129, on 26 January 2013 - 05:07 PM said:

GravityScore, on 26 January 2013 - 04:57 PM said:

Is this for Lua or for another language? I've always used Eclipse, but only for Java - and I think it's quite superior to NetBeans, even though I have NetBeans installed. I use Sublime Text 2 for Lua, but if I want something that will compile Lua outside of CC, I use Lua Development Tools - which is basically Eclipse for Lua.

I'm talking about Java. But I've heard NetBeans works for PHP, and frankly I'm not a fan of using DreamWeaver for anything but HTML/CSS.

What a random thing to say. Who mentioned Dreamweaver? You say it like it's the only other choice for doing PHP.

Dreamweaver can be used to write PHP.

The Pydev plugin for Eclipse is really awesome for Python programming also

TeddyJ, on 17 February 2013 - 09:54 AM said:

The Pydev plugin for Eclipse is really awesome for Python programming also

Because everyone in this thread was totally discussing Python.