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Why are Eclipse users moving to Netbeans?


Charles Ditzel has an interesting blog entry on this issue. One
of the reasons I find it interesting is because he uses content from
posters on Javalobby to support most of his arguments. I would be very
interested in hearing the comments of the people who wrote the posts
that he uses to support his arguments.


So what are some of his reasons why Eclipse users are going to
Netbeans? One is the speed issue which has been discussed here.
Netbeans has been getting faster since version 3.5, whereas Eclipse
seems to keep getting slower. Another reason is that Eclipse does not
support platforms other than Windows very well, primarily because of
SWT. Ditzel cites one post on Javalobby about how the GTK binding for
SWT is so slow, it is practically unusable.


The URL to the blog entry is here so that you can see if your posts are among the ones he used:


http://cld.blog-city.com/read/1126337.htm