Hello, I am a longtime user of Netbeans and a submitted of many bugs. I see how practically none of them is ever resolved, so that I do not submit any bug report any more.
I am wondering now (as probably many other users, given Netbeans' declining popularity) if to leave, given the (increasing?) number of problems with the IDE. Please help me and explain the history of one of the many bugs, and why it is like that. Possibly it is a representative of the current ecosystem around the development of the IDE. It is here https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192613 and it has 8 years. It is about adding a ridiculously easy option. And about an option which was there, I but one dev representative who commented This behaviour is intentional. I am sorry you hate it but there are users who love it. There is no plan to change it. had probably no idea that an option to disable this "behaviour" was already there, several lines of code which were either removed or are no more functional. I would check it again, but I do not care any more. Few lines, which I would resubmit as a patch, but when I see a dev answer like that above, or how I was once ridiculed when I asked about this bug on the non-existing forum (something about the lines of not fixing it in order to show who rules here), I do not care any more. Someone reopened that bug two years ago, but probably no dev cares any more. IntelliJ is somewhat plagued with bugs, but when I browse discussion forums of IntelliJ, there is something encouraging in all that energy of *helping* the users, of *caring* about them. And we talk about adding few lines of a ridiculously easy code. Which does not even increase the complexity of the UI. Guess which will be my next IDE.
