NetBeans Java IDE Might Become An Apache Incubator Project

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NetBeans Java IDE Might Become An Apache Incubator Project

A proposal posted today is looking to shift the NetBeans integrated development environment from being an Oracle project to one within the Apache incubator space...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NetBeans-Apache-Proposal

[eggbert]

I've used Netbeans for nearly 10 years now. In the last couple years, development of Netbeans has dropped off to a trickle. There used to be a new release every few months with loads of new features. Now there's only a point release every year. Basically Netbeans is in maintenance mode. It currently doesn't even support PHP 7 which has been out for a long time now.

Yet another great piece of software ruined by Oracle. VirtualBox won't be far behind.

Oh well, time to start looking at JetBrain's product offerings, I guess

[johnc]

I used to use NetBeans but now I'm back to just an old-school text editor.

[droste]

“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.”

[edoantonioco]

Netbeans is definitely my favorite IDE, whatever they do I hope than they will get more developers to work on it. But I wonder if this is good news.

[Ericg]

I hate to say it, but after OpenOffice, my new gut-reaction has become "Apache is where projects go to die." Which is a shame.

[jokeyrhyme]

Just move to IntelliJ community edition and say goodbye to Netbeans. JetBrains and Google seem like better stewards of the Java community than Oracle ever was.

[andre30correia]

Yet another great piece of software ruined by Oracle. VirtualBox won't be far behind.


[/QUOTE]

i hope not, virtualbox is the best tool for begginners or a great tool to simple test a OS without any effort

[Sonadow]

NetBeans was (and still is) the IDE that everybody used in my school for our introductory Java lessons. Quite sad to see it grind to a halt at this point of time, even though I am not a developer.

Still, I cannot stand the circular dependency that all Java IDEs exhibit. Want to use <insert name of Java IDE>? You need Java to run the UI!

[pouar]

I hate to say it, but after OpenOffice, my new gut-reaction has become "Apache is where projects go to die." Which is a shame.

https://www.pouar.net/downloads/asfdie.svgz