6 engineers on Hacker News describe using NetBeans first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I do not regret my choice. NetBeans has always progressively improved on its weaknesses, releases after releases.”
endorse · personal · JVerstry · 2013-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Netbeans, which has a bit of the user experience I'm looking for, but seems a little slothlike to me.”
mixed · personal · slantyyz · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have never had an issue with Netbeans builds or it rewriting my files.”
endorse · production · kls · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Only in the second year were we moved to netbeans and eclipse.”
neutral · personal · shean_massey · 2020-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After 10 months spent trying every cross-platform (Mac OS X/Linux) editor/IDE from joe, ne, or even diakonos to NetBeans and fiends”
neutral · personal · johncoltrane · 2013-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using IDE's (Borland, Microsoft, IntelliJ, Eclispe, Netbeans, etc)”
neutral · personal · xtracto · 2011-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?