I'm often seen writing gushing homilies about Netbeans at about this time of year, so it would be remiss of me not to sing its praises this year.
For more than 11 years, I've been putting together an implementation in Java SE of something I patented in 2008, and although there was and still is a learning curve involved with my work I have found Netbeans to be a constantly good development environment. I am currently using NetBeans version 11.0 to develop my applications over Java 8 (perhaps reasonable caution has given way somewhat to a touch of laziness), but each release of NetBeans has seen constant improvement. In my work, the core application logic and extensions to PC devices are written using NetBeans; I have had to opt of Android Studio to develop an extension for the Android phone. NetBeans doesn't appear to cast moral aspersions over the fact that I use Ant. I like that too because I don't use any third party libraries and hence don't need Maven or Gradle or any other build tool to manage dependencies. I like the addition of implicit types in the newer releases of Java, so I may move my applications to Java 10 or later very shortly, and I feel that I am going to have to eventually fully embrace lambdas at some point too. I think my work might be somewhat unique in that in much of it deals with extensions to the Thread. I use the current thread (the extension to the current thread) in my code. This way appears to do the job, and I feel that things might be a bit complicated if I was to start using parallel streams. But anyway, these things in time will reveal themselves to me. May NetBeans continue to improve in 2020. Owen. -- I'll cut your code at an intensity and from a place of my own choosing. Clique Space(TM). Anima ex machina.
