NetBeans
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 18, 2025first mention
Jul 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Netbeans had a very nice one”
“switched to netbeans which I already liked more”
switched from Eclipseon “Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studi…”
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“Netbeans instead, that always felt so natural to me.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Data: netbeans.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“headless Eclipse JDT or NetBeans”
“Java had some great tools and IDEs (NetBeans, Eclipse)”
“Netbeans had a very nice one”
“I use NetBeans, so I have a project view of packages and classes”
“switched to netbeans which I already liked more”
“I went through some IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans) because Java would have been nearly impossible otherwise”
“Netbeans instead, that always felt so natural to me.”