Dilemma netbeans or eclipse

[Nick15]

I am with eclipse now, but a friend of mine told me that netbeans is much better than eclipse.
what do you think? Do I have to learn Netbeans?
or keep eclipse?

[derrickD]

I never used netbeans but a lot of folks like it. The only thing I have ever heard negative is that it takes more memory than eclipse. But I have no proof of that, simply second hand info.No idea how much of a learning curve there is.

[yuchuang]

I'm currently using netbeans. I feel that netbeans is pretty nice to use except for what you say, it takes a lot of memory. Sometimes i use netbeans and when i run the project, it will have an error that says out of memory error so i have to close everything and open it again. Other than this disadvantage, i think netbeans is nice.

[levent]

I prefer Swing to SWT. That is why i selected NetBeans. The memory issue is correct. Several people is complaining about this on the NetBeans email lists.

[SwinGirl]

run away from netbeans...
PLEASE.

[JavaBean]

SwinGirl, why do you think so? Do you have any bad experience with it?

[SwinGirl]

yes, i´m havin a lot of headaches using Netbeans (and the netbeans Platform framework).
I dont know if Nertbeans it`s not Noob friendly or what.. XDD
but i can say, using IDEA, i´ve never suffered java. With netbeans i do.

[JavaBean]

Working on some IDE or language that you dont like can be a nightmare, i can understand you. It is best to work with sth you like to work with. That is what i learned from my last 3 years.. I like Java and hate C/C++ and i wasted a lot of time because of this...

[SwinGirl]

boolean yourOpinion = true;

^^