/devices/pseudo/bitbucket@0:bitbucket: Musings from the bitbucket

With the news that NetBeans IDE 5.0 has been released, I figure it's time to mention just how impressed I have been with it. I kept in touch with the q-builds, RC-builds and betas... and I was pretty impressed with features like the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay improved CVS support. I was pushing for Teamware support... that's on the list of source-code management tools to rejig the support for, so it's a "not just yet." One of the features that I really enjoy about the Sun Studio workshop environment is the C, C++ and Fortran code recognition. Now that's made up of modules which the compiler team have written and integrated on top of NetBeans IDE 4.1 .... I'm eagerly awaiting an update on those modules so that they work with the 5.0 release. But! the really really big feature for me is the incredible speed that this release runs at. I thought it was pretty hot with jdk1.5, then I pulled down the latest Mustang release (that's Java6 for the uninitiated) and I was simply blown away at how much faster NetBeans IDE 5.0 was. So do yourself a favour and grab the new NetBeans IDE 5.0 release, and if you want that extra jolt of speed, grab Mustang as well.