I used NetBeans back when it was called Forte for Java and have kept an eye on it ever since. Every few releases I would download it and try it out again. Since Eclipse came onto the scene, NetBeans was just “that other Java IDE.” I no longer work with Java, nor do I use […]

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One of the points that I’ve been trying to make since I’ve gotten back in to the languages space is that a lot of what is happening in languages now is unpausing the nuclear winter that Java imposed on the programming language space. If you haven’t been following this space […]

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There is an article over at DevX entitled “Opinion: Eclipse Fails to Meet the Enterprise Java Developer’s Needs” by Gerard Fernandes. As the name suggests, the author attempts to make the argument that Eclipse is just a fundamentally bad piece of software. Unfortunately, in attempting to do so he makes some factual errors.

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