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As of January 2025, the mindshare of NetBeans in the IDE category stands at 2.8%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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System Architect and NetBeans Dream Team Member at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of NetBeans
Aug 31, 2017
Product discussed: IDE 8.2
No additional configuration is needed, just checkout projects from the VCS server and open it

Pros

"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it. "

Cons

"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
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Java Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of NetBeans
Apr 5, 2019
Product discussed: 8.2
Some of the valuable features are Java development, RCP ​support and support for various other languages.
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Consultor Senior Front-End Javascript at SOAINT
Verified user of NetBeans
Jun 19, 2018
Product discussed: 8.2
Large number of easily integrated plugins improves development productivity

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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."
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Senior Software Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees
Verified user of NetBeans
Aug 30, 2017
Product discussed: 8.0.2. (patch 2)
​​Linux native makefile support and Simple setup are among the features I like

Pros

"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"

Cons

"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
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Full Stack Web Developer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Verified user of NetBeans
Aug 9, 2017
Fully-loaded, Versatile Web Development, Product Needing Improvement in Scalability

Pros

"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."

Cons

"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes. "
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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of NetBeans
Jul 27, 2017
Product discussed: 8.2
since it is open source, you can just go ahead and contribute whatever you want to change yourself

Pros

"Server Support"

Cons

"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."
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Programmer and Analyst with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of NetBeans
Nov 1, 2017
Product discussed: 8.2
Any slowness is detected by the tool and can be reported

Pros

"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."

Cons

"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build). "
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Senior Software Developer at Sollers Consulting
Verified user of NetBeans
Dec 10, 2017
The debugging mechanize could be improved, but it has helped us to increase our productivity and defect solving

Pros

"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."

Cons

"The debugging mechanize could be improved compared to IntelliJ, for example."