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Yup. Netbeans was the IDE that finally dragged be away from Emacs. Well, at least for Java programming, I still use Emacs for pretty much everything else :o)

I never quite get why there are so many people so keen on Eclipse. Always seems slow, hard to configure and (to me) less intuitive than Netbeans. Ah well, each to their own =)

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Netbeans 8 is great for HTML5/JS work as well. Been using the beta version for AngularJS development the past 2 months.

Netbeans JavaScript support is great.

Good enough autocomplete, integration JSLint makes you aware of possible errors as one types and there is the integration with a myriad of JS frameworks.

Really nice.

Have you tried Brackets or JetBrains WebStorm? If so, how does it compare as far as HTML/CSS/JS dev?

No I have not.

How fast is the Netbeans UI compared to IntelliJ(fast) and Eclipse(slow)?

I just finished this IntelliJ plugin and wondering if anyone could use a Netbeans one:

https://github.com/wakatime/jetbrains-wakatime

Anyone here use Netbeans as their primary IDE and want a similar plugin developed?

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