Much less of a resource hog was the first big thing I noticed. Also the support for CSS and JS in NetBeans was a biggie. Having code completion on JQuery has been a life saved. I tried getting it to work with Aptana installed in Eclipse but never could. But the biggest benefit came a couple days after I started testing it out. I found the Drupal plugin for NetBeans: https://nbdrupalsupport.dev.java.net/ Now coding is that much more streamlined. No more going through and manually creating .module and .info files. Can't remember a hook? It adds a hook palette in so you got them all right there. It did take a little getting used to. For example, if I want to go to a function declaration I can no longer hit F3. Now I control-click it. Little things like that, but once I got used to it I have been very happy. Jamie Holly Tao Starbow wrote:
What pulled you to NetBeans over Eclipse?
Tao
Jamie Holly wrote:
Have you given NetBeans 6.54 a try yet? I've switched from Eclipse to it at the beginning of the month and haven't looked back.
Jamie Holly
Domenic Santangelo wrote:
Hey all,
I've been using Komodo for a while and while I like its built-in support for xdebug (breakpoints, stepping, stack trace, the whole enchilada) and code intel. But I hate it because it's a terrible resource hog. I've been using Coda for a couple weeks, and although it's extremely pretty, it lacks a few pretty key things, xdebug support being the main one. I used TextMate before Komodo and am thinking of going back, but I really would hate to live without debugging/xdebug support. Also, I've tried Eclipse and don't like it.
Thoughts? TextMate + some magic to support xdebug maybe?
-Dom