Currently, I’m a long Eclipse user because my past and current companies always deal with eclipse. Recently I met some example java codes created using netbeans. I downloaded and tried Netbeans 7.x and 6.9.x, but they’re more heavier and eating memory resources than Eclipse Indigo.
So anyone know which past version of Netbeans IDE that has lightness almost equal to or better than Eclipse Indigo (3.7) but can support Java SDK v1.6?
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Whether one IDE is more lightweight than another is pretty subjective. Do you have the identical features running etc? Even then it’s not a like for like comparison. Couple of workarounds:
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The two IDEs both feature importers that will allow you to bounce projects back an forth – most of my projects run in all three major IDEs.
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You can performance tune your IDE, take a look at what Java heap settings they both start with and run a quick GC analysis on them when you do project work. You’ve be amazed what a few command line parameter changes can do.
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Good hardware is comparatively cheap. SSD Drive + 8 GB of RAM should see almost any IDE happy.
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