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by sgt 3760 days ago
Agreed. Switched to IntelliJ about 4-5 months ago. Haven't looked back since. Interestingly, what caused me to look at IntelliJ wasn't a lack of features in NetBeans, but rather the fact that still today NetBeans doesn't work properly on a retina MacBook Pro.

To elaborate, on a MBP Retina, you'll find that the UI lags slightly if typing fast, especially if a lot of syntax highlighting is happening on the screen. It does not happen if you are using NetBeans on an external monitor. The NetBeans team claims it's a Java issue, so in the end I just didn't want to wait anymore, and I downloaded IntelliJ.
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bmoresbest55 3760 days ago
One of my co-workers has a 5K iMac and definitely has this issue. I will have to test more carefully to see if this is also affecting me. Does not really matter because after reading this I am definitely moving to IntelliJ.
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dr_zoidberg 3760 days ago
Ehem... As far as I remember, IntelliJ is also programmed in Java, so about that Java issue with Retina...
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sgt 3758 days ago
Agreed. Never bought the argument from the NetBeans guys.
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