The text below is what I originally typed in the comments form at http://lifeonrails.org/2007/8/30/netbeans-the-best-ruby-on-rails-ide -a very informative Rails blog!- but as I was about to click on ‘Add that puppy’ (-G-) I decided against it, not wanting to become a comment troll myself.
So, it’s now here instead:
Joe,
As a JBuilder veteran, let me tell you that it saddens me to see you spend time writing a plug on this blog rather than working on your products. I was very disappointed with JBuilder 2006. The way I see it, after releasing an abysmally buggy JBuilder 2005, you apparently decided to throw the baby with the bath water. I do not know if you guys got overwhelmed by the complexity of your own product but it seems that you thought that, rather than fixing it, selling us a few Eclipse plugins rebranded as ‘JBuilder’ was going to do the trick.
After more than 7 years of sticking with you guys, I have moved my whole team to Netbeans and have nothing but praises for it. IMO, it is the product that JBuilder was destined to be. Except it also handles Ruby seamlessly, which feels like a natural evolution for us Java developers.
Now, feel free to tell me if I got it all wrong. It is not my intent to start a flame war with the Borland people and I would be very happy to be proven wrong since I was a JBuilder fan for so many years.
-C.
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