Apache NetBeans 13 IDE Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Apache NetBeans 13 IDE Released

Apache NetBeans 13 is now available as the latest version of this popular open-source integrated development environment (IDE)...

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[Leinad]

It was popular, until Oracle. Same story like with OpenOffice

[tildearrow]

Is it really that popular?

[all3f0r1]

Loved it back in the college days, didn't know it was still alive... Jetbrains is the goto IDE for Java now, I can't imagine Netbeans making a return.

[Ironmask]

Wow, it looks ugly as sin. Did this time travel from the year 2004?

[kpedersen]

If I recall, netbeans (and by proxy, Solaris Studio) didn't allow you to turn off the autoformatter. Painful. Do the netbeans developers only work on *one* project with *one* code style at a time? Or do they have time to repetitively keep changing the settings? It was unusable so hopefully they have fixed that bug.

[caligula]

Loved it back in the college days, didn't know it was still alive... Jetbrains is the goto IDE for Java now, I can't imagine Netbeans making a return.

Many of the Apache branded projects are legacy shit. OpenOffice is surprisingly popular. Some like it more than LibreOffice.

[eggbert]

It was really good back in the day. In addition to Java and PHP it also used to naively support Ruby and C++. Then Oracle got their hands on it and it languished for a long time before finally going to the Apache software graveyard. Yeah, I do not think it's popular anymore.

[caligula]

It was really good back in the day. In addition to Java and PHP it also used to naively support Ruby and C++. Then Oracle got their hands on it and it languished for a long time before finally going to the Apache software graveyard. Yeah, I do not think it's popular anymore.

It's also pretty obvious why they don't need it. There are already good development environments such as IDEA, Eclipse, VS Code. All of them are more popular and packed with more features. Maybe others for each desktop environment. I don't see any point in competing with any of those better IDEs. This is just madness.

[Hans Micheelsen]

For me it was the best C++-development tool. I liked the short-keys. Its pity that there is no C++-plug-in for Netbeans any more. On the other hand I fancy Clion now.