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Message #1 by "Danish Z.Aga" <agadanish@y...> on Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:09:44
I like NetBeans (http://www.netbeans.org/) - it's Open Source (Sun Public 
License, which is a variant of Mozilla Public License).

The good thing is that it's written completely in Java, so it's portable 
(which is an issue to me since I use it on Linux, Solaris, and Win2K, and 
I've also seen it running on OS/2 and MacOSX).

The bad thing is that it's written completely in Java, so it takes a lot 
of memory (at least 50M) so I only use it on a machine with 256M (I have 
to have several other things also open at the same time). One of my 
machines has "only" 128M so before I fire up NetBeans I close down 
everything else.

Sun's Forte For Java free-for-download version is actually Sun-branded 
NetBeans - basically the same, save for a few minor details. The ones you 
pay for have a lot of other goodies included (see 
http://www.sun.com/forte/ for details).

Most of the time I'll simply use Vi IMproved (http://www.vim.org/) with 
command line - even on Win2K (yes, there is a Windows version and it's 
just as good as the UN*X one). VIM is small, fast, customisable, supports 
syntax highlighting - it's programmer's best friend.

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