NetBeans 7.0 released

by karussell on 4/20/2011, 2:36 PM with 44 comments
  • by udp on 4/20/2011, 2:56 PM

    Those doing Android dev and stuck with Eclipse should also check out nbandroid: http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans

    It's such a breath of fresh air having a responsive IDE... now all I need is a responsive phone ;-)

  • by Legion on 4/20/2011, 4:20 PM

    I can't stand Netbeans on Linux because of the awful Swing font rendering. Eclipse respects the font settings of my desktop environment. Netbeans looks terrible no matter what.

  • by hanifvirani on 4/20/2011, 3:20 PM
  • by mrinterweb on 4/20/2011, 4:25 PM

    Looks like they've dropped Ruby support. That is too bad. Netbeans was a pretty good IDE for ruby development. I wonder what motivated the decision to drop ruby.

  • by techtalsky on 4/20/2011, 8:08 PM

    I use NetBeans 6.9 currently at my corporate job to edit PHP, and some of the enhancements have me excited. Notably:

    - It uses native file listeners to detect filesystem updates. Awesome. I often use some other mechanism to create files and it's lame how slow NetBeans picks them up.

    - Rename refactoring now works in PHP... I always wondered why it gave me the error that "rename refactoring won't work in this context". Now I know "this context" was PHP.

    - HTML5! Cool.

  • by rb2k_ on 4/20/2011, 3:18 PM

    Any news on the community driven Ruby plugin?

  • by phren0logy on 4/20/2011, 4:09 PM

    Can anyone who has been running the beta for a while comment about how NetBeans 7 stacks up to IntelliJ IDEA 10? I am trying both out, but I'm new to IDEs and some opinions from those with more experience would be helpful.

  • by odiroot on 4/20/2011, 7:55 PM

    Where is my Python support?

  • by trungonnews on 4/20/2011, 7:10 PM

    What's wrong with IntelliJ?