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NetBeans IDE vs Lazarus: What are the differences?

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; Lazarus: A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE. It is a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

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

Some of the features offered by NetBeans IDE are:

  • Best Support for Latest Java Technologies
  • Fast & Smart Code Editing
  • Easy & Efficient Project Management

On the other hand, Lazarus provides the following key features:

  • Cross Platform IDE. Work on your favourite system
  • Platform independent projects out of the box. Simply copy your project to another platform and compile it
  • Build native binaries. Distribute your binaries without dependencies on any runtime environment

Lazarus is an open source tool with 256 GitHub stars and 67 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Lazarus's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Lazarus
Pros of NetBeans IDE
  • 4
    Support for Multi-Platform-Compiling
  • 3
    Performance
  • 3
    GUI Designer
  • 2
    Open Source
  • 2
    Visual GUI Designer
  • 2
    Opensource
  • 2
    True Cross Platform
  • 2
    Cross Platform Development
  • 2
    True Cross-Platform
  • 2
    Fast and small binaries
  • 2
    Cross Compiler
  • 1
    Android and iOS Support
  • 1
    Refactoring
  • 1
    IOS and Android Development
  • 1
    Friendly IRC + Forum Community
  • 1
    Amazing Community
  • 1
    Code Completion
  • 1
    Delphi compatibility
  • 1
    Code Refactoring
  • 1
    Because the pricing of Delphi is totally outrageous
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    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
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    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 Lazarus
Cons of NetBeans IDE
  • 3
    You don't end with a totally broken financial situation
  • 2
    PHP debug doesn't support conditional breakpoints

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What is Lazarus?

It is a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development. It has variety of components ready for use and a graphical form designer to easily create complex graphical user interfaces.

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 Lazarus and NetBeans IDE?
Delphi
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Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
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