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Netbeans 20 Released

by philonoist on 12/2/23, 7:16 AM with 13 comments

  • by globular-toast on 12/2/23, 9:08 AM

    I wrote my first few Java programs with NetBeans back in the day. I quickly looked for an alternative because I didn't want to use a language-specific editor. But the main thing I didn't like was how you would create a "NetBeans project" which would be useless for people not using NetBeans. Do these types of IDEs still do that kind of thing or do they support "generic" projects now?
  • by evnix on 12/2/23, 8:19 AM

    If you are looking for a light weight intelliJ alternative, then this is it.
  • by th3iedkid on 12/2/23, 11:53 AM

    One of the differentiators for netbeans was their swing GUI editor.That was likely 15 years ago!
  • by mrlonglong on 12/2/23, 2:01 PM

    I loved writing java apps with this IDE. These days are long gone and I'm happily using .Net instead.
  • by MaxBarraclough on 12/2/23, 12:36 PM

    This page doesn't give any details about what's changed in this release.

    More informative page: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/releases/tag/20

  • by TomMasz on 12/2/23, 8:28 PM

    I use Netbeans as an IDE for developing on Raspberry Pi Zero since VS Code doesn't support it.