Around 2007 I started a major Java project using Eclipse on Linux. It would work well for awhile then freeze for no particular reason, sometimes the project settings would get trashed and I'd have to create a new project and move all the source code over to it. Once day after running some updates, Subversion stopped working. The Eclipse subversion plugin wouldn't update because of some plugin dependency problem. Plugin updates didn't work all that well in general.
So, I decided to check out NetBeans. I have tried years before (4.0 ish) and wasn't all that impressed, but 6.0 had just come out.
Everything just worked.
No special plugins needed, It seemed more responsive, SVN worked fine. Plus it supported PHP and c/c++, both of which I would need for the project.
The other developer and myself switched to Netbeans and never looked back. I've been upgrading Netbeans with each release and will probably upgrade to 8.0 this weekend.
So, I decided to check out NetBeans. I have tried years before (4.0 ish) and wasn't all that impressed, but 6.0 had just come out.
Everything just worked.
No special plugins needed, It seemed more responsive, SVN worked fine. Plus it supported PHP and c/c++, both of which I would need for the project.
The other developer and myself switched to Netbeans and never looked back. I've been upgrading Netbeans with each release and will probably upgrade to 8.0 this weekend.