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What is NetBeans?

NetBeans IDE. The Smarter and Faster Way to Code. Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

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NetBeans IDE. The Smarter and Faster Way to Code. Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.


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Most developers recognize the NetBeans IDE as the original free Java IDE. It is that, and much more! The NetBeans IDE provides support for several languages (PHP, JavaFX, C/C++, JavaScript, etc.) and frameworks. NetBeans is an open-source project dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (the NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform) that address the needs of developers, users and the businesses who rely on NetBeans as a basis for their products.

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Netbeans provide Auto complete,Bracket Matching and Cross platform . Netbeans provide framework support . Drag and drop . GUI designing is very s...
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I like two things mainly, the way you can create GUIs, and the way it works for Java, is my main IDE when I'm working with Java.
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What do you like best about NetBeans?

The GUI builder is simply the best. The learning curve is not too high.It's interface is simple than others.

It has tools for PHP , c/c++ , html , css , js etc.

It gives hints and autosuggestion to the user whenever possible.

Inbuilt JDK and GIT is a plus.

JavaFX tools.

Available on many platforms so I can use it on my ubuntu laptop as well as PC.

It supports Postgre SQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Things I don't like about Netbeans -

It's booting time is a bit slow.

Learning curve is a bit high.

Requires less RAM.

I only have a single view. Debugger and compiler too slow.

No workspace feature.

Less number of third party plugins available.

It is getting old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Learn keyboard shortcuts. It takes a little time but saves a lot of time afterwards.

It is one of the best available modern IDE's. No prerequisites. You can go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I provide simple software solutions to individuals looking forward to automate their tasks.

The time taken to develop an app is less as the learning and developing curve is low.

For developing small GUI applications, the drag and drop feature is a bliss as it saves a lot of time on frontend developing end.

This is an IDE which supports version control which helps in code reviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

The IDE was easy to use for C++ and the interface was ok. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

It is great for Maven but found other IDEs such as Eclipse and IntelliJ to work better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

I would not recommend NetBeans as there are other IDEs with better out of the box solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have realized that it is useful to utilize the Spring framework into financial technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Easy to use and great management of files and libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

requires better compatibility with new technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

Realization of various developments thanks to its effective use of libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

excellent ide to develop in java, has different functionalities and easy to handle, very practical also, the management of libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

often it is tedious to install, it requires a high level of hardware so that it can work very well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

An excellent alternative for programming in java EE and SE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

it has benefited me in many projects in java, with frameworks like spring, hibernate and struts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Free

Many plugins

Easy to use

For beginners and professionals

Multiple programming languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Nothing in particular. To say something, it offers nothing new compared to Eclipse, which I think surpasses it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

Good option, but I prefer Eclipse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used it for programming in Java and also with JSON. It helped us a lot in web and Android development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

NetBeans can successfully integrate with docker, as i can work with php on a real replica production platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Sometimes, opening NetBeans needs a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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NetBeans have integration with a lot of services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

Integration with Docker is very important to avoid typical errors in pass to production process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

- The autocomplete clases is powerfull.

- Is fast. And no so much time is required for start programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Something crash in mac version and restart automatically suddenly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

The Mac version is no so much stable (the last version at least). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

The possibility of programming in PHP , HTML and JavaScript with no licence need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

It's very easy to use and minimizes extra coding requirements and you can use ready-made features. Very user friendly especially for novice coders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Lack of flexibility and does not let you customize easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was using it my company to build an application using Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

Netbeans is the best suited IDE to use for most programming languages if not any because of its support of many programming languages like C, C++, java, php, html,javascript etc just to mention a few.what i love about netbeans is that firstly the interface is quite user friendly and you can quite set it up the way you want to make programming hustle free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

Not much but maybe the dev team can add up more drag and drop features for people like me lol who likes drag and drops much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering NetBeans:

if dont have a favorite IDE or even if you do,just try Netbeans,you wont regret it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

i use netbeans for making websites for my clients and it pretty much satisfies me especially with the code coloring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about NetBeans?

I have been using NetBeans for as long as I've been a developer. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best IDE for PHP and other web development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about NetBeans?

The metadata directory should absolutely not default to my project's code directory. Then I have to go do a whole git ignore thing and it's just a pain in the ass. Metadata should always be stored outside the project directory by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is NetBeans solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to export code formatting settings has made our team's code way, way more formal and standardized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.