[jeremyjh]

Netbeans is an excellent IDE for developing C++ on Linux. I've been using it for a Cocos2d-X project with few complaints. It has a really good Vim emulator which is critical to me and where Jetbrains continues to disappoint me.

[pjmlp]

It helps being the official Solaris IDE.

[zak_mc_kracken]

They both come from the same company so it's not exactly a testament of quality, just corporate strategy.

[pjmlp]

Sure, but Sun (now Oracle) could have chosen just to support Java.

So it was a good decision to give support to C and C++ developers as well.