Monday 25 June 2018

NetBeans 9 - more than the usual upgrades

Follow this link.

If you're still not aware of the current state of the IDE's governance, the first thing you see might surprise you - Oracle gave the IDE to the Apache Foundation. So from 9.0 version onward we'll have Apache NetBeans.

From the rest of the contents of the page you can see some of the interesting new features that come to support the latest additions in the 9th and 10th versions of the JDK. It's mostly some syntactic sugar (the var type declartation) and hints. The modular system is supported with GUI tools, as is the new Java Shell ... But don't take myword for it, just go and see for yourselves.

Currently the RC1 is available, so I hope we'll have the final version within a month.

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