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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.
Pros of Lazarus
- Support for Multi-Platform-Compiling4
- Performance3
- GUI Designer3
- Open Source2
- Visual GUI Designer2
- Opensource2
- True Cross Platform2
- Cross Platform Development2
- True Cross-Platform2
- Fast and small binaries2
- Cross Compiler2
- Android and iOS Support1
- Refactoring1
- IOS and Android Development1
- Friendly IRC + Forum Community1
- Amazing Community1
- Code Completion1
- Delphi compatibility1
- Code Refactoring1
- Because the pricing of Delphi is totally outrageous1
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 Lazarus
- You don't end with a totally broken financial situation3
Cons of NetBeans IDE
- PHP debug doesn't support conditional breakpoints2