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AppCode vs NetBeans IDE: What are the differences?

What is AppCode? IDE for iOS/macOS development. It is an integrated development environment for Swift, Objective-C, C, C++, and JavaScript development built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA platform. It takes care of your routine tasks and saves you from extra typing.

What is NetBeans IDE? Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more. NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

AppCode and NetBeans IDE can be categorized as "Integrated Development Environment" tools.

Edify, inFeedo, and Adsia are some of the popular companies that use NetBeans IDE, whereas AppCode is used by GittiGidiyor, Azimo, and edu.chat, inc. NetBeans IDE has a broader approval, being mentioned in 80 company stacks & 342 developers stacks; compared to AppCode, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of AppCode
Pros of NetBeans IDE
  • 2
    Better typing
  • 2
    Awesome refactoring support
  • 2
    Powerful search and replace
  • 76
    Rich features
  • 69
    Crossplatform
  • 49
    Plugins(Git, SVN)
  • 38
    Easy to use
  • 38
    Extensible
  • 35
    PHP Support
  • 34
    Java support
  • 28
    File History
  • 21
    Code analysis
  • 18
    MySQL support
  • 14
    Free
  • 14
    Open source
  • 10
    Code completion
  • 9
    Strong Maven Support
  • 8
    NodeJs support
  • 6
    Webdev king
  • 6
    Easy maven project start
  • 6
    Best
  • 4
    Jira Plugin
  • 4
    Foss
  • 3
    Out of the box integration with maven, git, svn
  • 3
    History of changes, friendly tabs
  • 3
    Mandatory
  • 2
    Intuitive ui
  • 2
    Chrome plugin to live update javascript from browser
  • 2
    Groovy support
  • 2
    Native Nette support
  • 2
    I don't like NetBeans
  • 2
    Smarty support
  • 2
    Visual GUI Builder for Swing / AWT
  • 2
    Custom html tags support
  • 1
    Powerful refactoring
  • 1
    Composer commands inside IDE

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Cons of AppCode
Cons of NetBeans IDE
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    • 2
      PHP debug doesn't support conditional breakpoints

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    What is AppCode?

    It is an integrated development environment for Swift, Objective-C, C, C++, and JavaScript development built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA platform. It takes care of your routine tasks and saves you from extra typing.

    What is NetBeans IDE?

    NetBeans IDE is FREE, open source, and has a worldwide community of users and developers.

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    What are some alternatives to AppCode and NetBeans IDE?
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    Android Studio
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    Visual Studio
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    IntelliJ IDEA
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