Can multi-billion corporations be embarassed?

Oracle just released NetBeans 8 which has a re-occurrence of a complete show-stopper bug: cannot debug GNU C++ code.

There was the same bug back in 2011 that was supposedly fixed in 2012. Now it's back.

Another embarrassing bug in NB 8 is runaway processes. Stopping debugging session does not actually kill the process being debugged. How they could possibly miss that in test is beyond me. The only reasonable explanation would be that they did not test at all.

In version 8 they finally managed to completely break breakpoints. In a sense that there are glitches with setting and removing them: clicking left margin may not have any visible effect, but set the breakpoint anyway. Or the other way around: clicking a breakpoint in the margin will not have any visual effect, but breakpoint would be removed. And any combination of that, when you no longer have any idea what breakpoints exist in your code.

Top that with broken code completion where completion hotkeys have to be pressed twice to bring up code completion drop down box, not one! Wasting users' time must be their goal.

When initially started, NB 8 does not allow you to run your project right away. You can edit your source, but the run/debug butons are disabled until you click inside the project tree. Could they miss that in test? No possibility - they did not test at all.

Recently I came to realization that with NetBeans 7.3.1, 7.4 and 8 I was spending ever greater portion of my working hours on fighting the IDE bugs and its developers @ Oracle. This cannot continue as I have to make money for my business before I get paid. The Oracle developers, judging by the sheer amount of bugs in rudimentary simple functionality, that must be easy to spot if only they bothered with testing, must be getting paid regardless of quality of code that they deliver. I do not have this luxury and am jumping off the train wreck called NetBeans.

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