Another one bites the dust: Apache foundaton kills Netbeans

I cannot fathom what they are thinking. What line of thinking may lead an otherwise reasonable group of developers (judging by Apache web server) to maul and mangle a product that they picked up from Oracle?

Enter Netbeans. Yes, its main target is Java, true. But it still had pretty decent support for C++. Now it is gone, carved out and butchered. Previously, all you had to have for developing in C++ in Netbeans was an installation of GCC infrastructure. Netbeans would then automatically discover the command lines as soon as the C++ plugin activated itself on 1st use. Now you need 2 servers installed, to support C++ development.

Where is the guarantee that those servers that run as daemons come with no security problems like much of Linux software does? Any IT admin worth their pay should question the need to install server software just to run an IDE. I would!

Well, here is a wake-up call for you, genius fascists: thanks, but no thanks. I am not going to submit to your dictatorial ideology and slap god knows what more software onto my perfectly working system, just to satisfy your laziness and dictatorial tendencies. Netbeans 8.2 from Oracle works perfectly well still, and none of the purported benefits of Apache Netbeans 9+ are needed. Slide into oblivion, assholes!

Posted by: LinuxLies at 07:37 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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