IDE Netbeans Eclipse and More!

Writing code without an integrated development environment (IDE) can be a hassle, and that’s why they exist. When writing code developers usually get used a to one IDE and hence improve productivity. Weather you are already using Netbeans or Eclipse or Visual Studio checking out these other options can help improve your productivity.

I have to admit, my favorite so far is Netbeans 6.5 although it is still in under development but you can get a stable release of the previous version 6.1. This not another Netbeans vs Eclipse vs Visual Studio comparision as I have seen many of them myself. They are helpful to compare features side by side but you can find that on their websites. Here I am just showing the benifits of and IDE and how cool I find Netbeans to be.

If you don’t know what and IDE is, it is simply a compiler editor and project manager put together. Eclipse started an expandable IDE which could be expanded in features through plugins. This spread wide pretty quick and now code::blocks or netbeans and many other have similar features. Using and IDE you don’t have to write code and compile is spreatley. It can all be done from one place.

Why Netbeans? Well, everyone is biased on their preferences, however I find Netbeans to be the best one out there for the following reasons.

It has a very good looking gui and ofcourse others have them too. Netbeans is built on java so its a resource hog but over the past years its been made pretty efficient. The feature I like the most is the syntax check along with the auto complete. The common stuff like ” ” or () , {} etc… are typed and closed automatically as you type. The syntax checking shows you errors as you type as I do that a lot and having to compile it and finding out just a semi colon was missing is pretty annoying. If I didn’t already mention with the help of plugins you can use Netbeans to write code in almost any language. Give it a shot and see for yourself.

You can check out more info on Netbeans here