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JetBrains IDEs vs NetBeans comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

JetBrains IDEs
Ranking in IDE
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NetBeans
Ranking in IDE
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IDE category, the mindshare of JetBrains IDEs is 3.4%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetBeans is 2.6%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Paco Velasco Reina - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 23, 2023
Allows the development Microsoft products on Linux with good plugins and integrations
One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory. You also need a very powerful computer compared to Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Enterprise. An important improvement would be the case of having more than one instance open. It is common to have more than one instance because of developing linked microservices or frontend/backend at the same time. Memory usage in this case should be optimized. The debugging of objects and their manipulation is also not optimal. Sometimes it is difficult to observe variables or very complex objects. There are also memory overflows that sometimes cause debugging to stop.
it_user728640 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 31, 2017
No additional configuration is needed, just checkout projects from the VCS server and open it
One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it. Basically, you can open any Maven project in IDE without any additional configuration For the user who chooses to use it, they can start to work on the company's projects as soon as the IDE is up and running. No additional…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Good support for refactoring."
"Having the complete development environment in Linux in the same way as in Windows is already the best."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."
"Server Support"
"When you have to develop in Java, this IDE is ideal because it has many plugins that make your life easier... For example, when working with Hibernate or with JPA, creating entities is very easy through a graphical interface."
"The learning curve is easy and fast because the interface is simple and intuitive, enabling us to easily train developers who are not expert in metrics."
"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."
"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it."
"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"
"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, plugins (from third parties) are not updated."
"One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory."
"There are always rooms for improvement for any product. The good thing with NetBeans is that since it is Open Source, you can just go ahead and contribute whatever you want to change yourself."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."
"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
"I would like there to be better integration with Git, as there are IDEs such as Eclipse that offer this integration in a much more elegant way than NetBeans."
"The debugging mechanize could be improved compared to IntelliJ, for example."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I am sad that CLion is not free. Currently, it has no support for Linux makefiles, only cmake, and this is a big mess."
"It is an open source and free tool, with no changes, and the licensing allows me even to change source code, if I need."
"NetBeans is free and open source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Government
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Media Company
9%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JetBrains IDEs?
The licenses are quite expensive, especially considering that there is a free version of Visual Studio. However, the licenses come down in price as they are rolled out annually, which is a welcome ...
What needs improvement with JetBrains IDEs?
One of the most important things to improve is the consumption of resources, mainly memory. You also need a very powerful computer compared to Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio Enterprise. An imp...
What is your primary use case for JetBrains IDEs?
Our main use case is to program APIs in Microsoft Net Core >= 2.2. The development of APIs under JetBrains Rider allows us to use the Microsoft framework under Linux natively as if we were doing...
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Citi, Siemens, Salesforce, Twitter, HP, New York Times, Pintrest, Airbnb, Expedia, Samsung, Volkswagen, Wikipedia, NASA
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