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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.
Pros of AppCode
- Better typing2
- Awesome refactoring support2
- Powerful search and replace2
Pros of NetBeans IDE
- Rich features76
- Crossplatform69
- Plugins(Git, SVN)49
- Easy to use38
- Extensible38
- PHP Support35
- Java support34
- File History28
- Code analysis21
- MySQL support18
- Free14
- Open source14
- Code completion10
- Strong Maven Support9
- NodeJs support8
- Webdev king6
- Easy maven project start6
- Best6
- Jira Plugin4
- Foss4
- Out of the box integration with maven, git, svn3
- History of changes, friendly tabs3
- Mandatory3
- Intuitive ui2
- Chrome plugin to live update javascript from browser2
- Groovy support2
- Native Nette support2
- I don't like NetBeans2
- Smarty support2
- Visual GUI Builder for Swing / AWT2
- Custom html tags support2
- Powerful refactoring1
- Composer commands inside IDE1
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Cons of AppCode
Cons of NetBeans IDE
- PHP debug doesn't support conditional breakpoints2