We performed a comparison between Eclipse Luna and NetBeans based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JetBrains and others in IDE."Eclipse's auto-code suggestion feature makes programming very easy and fast."
"It works like a one-stop shop for all of our application development requirements."
"It is very extensible and uses resources optimally."
"It comes out of package fully-loaded with a lot of great features for web development."
"Server Support"
"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."
"The learning curve is easy and fast because the interface is simple and intuitive, enabling us to easily train developers who are not expert in metrics."
"C++ 11 support (for a long time)"
"It is easy to deploy, manage servers, and ORMS resources."
"One of the most important features is that Apache Maven supports it."
"Large scale of projects, templates, and coding support."
"The development of the product needs improvement."
"I would like to see it extend native support for functional languages like Scala."
"Eclipse can sometimes be a plugin nightmare. Various plugins require different versions of the same plugin running for different reasons."
"Background scanning of sources on demand, disallowed by Options (processor usage, build cannot be deleted by the old version build)."
"Debugging: Watches, Evaluate Expression, and data inspection are limited."
"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."
"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."
"One of main areas that the tool can improve is performance."
"The debugging mechanize could be improved compared to IntelliJ, for example."
"t is a very heavy load on the computer, especially when you compare with Sublime Text Limited plugins and themes."
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Eclipse Luna is ranked 5th in IDE with 3 reviews while NetBeans is ranked 6th in IDE. Eclipse Luna is rated 8.6, while NetBeans is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Eclipse Luna writes "Good plugins and helpful templates with a useful auto-code suggestion feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetBeans writes "No additional configuration is needed, just checkout projects from the VCS server and open it". Eclipse Luna is most compared with Oracle SQL Developer, whereas NetBeans is most compared with Replit, SonarLint, Codespaces, Codeium and Oracle SQL Developer.
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