Totally agree with all your points I used interchange between eclipse and netbeans, however after a break in using both of them I find netbeans the more natural one for me though as you say it somehow it isn't as good as the older Sun version.You are welcome.
But dont waste your time with Netbeans support for C/C++ coding, it is very minimalist because Netbeans (that I enjoyed so much) is nearly dead since Oracle acquisition.
You should prefer Eclipse, a perfect Java IDE (i use it everyday at work) with C and PHP variants.
Eclipse can be downloaded either as a specialised binary for Java or C or PHP, or plugins can bring adequat complement (eg download Java flavour then install CDT plugin).
I installed (unzip) Eclipse CDT on my Pi and run a C hello world in minutes, I am not a C dev but toolchains seem already configured.
There is also a plugin/flavour called Sloeber specialized in microcontrollers (Arduino and Pico).
I am a very basic level programmer, spent a lot of time on 8-bit assembly and my programming ability and style haven't changed much from those days All these IDE's are way over-the-top for my needs but if it helps catches typos and lets me run and move files to servers then that's fine. Geany is probably more suited in many ways but I just feel less comfortable with Geany. Used to use debugging in Netbeans but not bothered for a long time.
Statistics: Posted by pidd — Mon Sep 08, 2025 6:08 pm