lite VS Apache NetBeans

Compare lite vs Apache NetBeans and see what are their differences.

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lite Apache NetBeans
30 34
7,271 2,531
- 1.9%
0.0 9.8
6 months ago about 16 hours ago
Lua Java
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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lite

Posts with mentions or reviews of lite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.
  • TextAdept
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    Another small, minimalist Lua-based text editor is Lite[1], and it's much less "light" cousin Lite-XL[2]

    1: https://github.com/rxi/lite

    2: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

  • A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
    Playing with browser developer tools and always seeing obfuscated JavaScript makes me sad. I'm not a web developer, but I suspect the security gained is low enough to fall within the author's "unnecessary constraints."

    On the other hand, there are projects like https://github.com/rxi/lite

  • Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2023
    Beyond the rendering which as noted is nothing that hasn't been done before (in general) the inherent OT/multi user + tree sitter functionality is something that entices me.

    I'm surprised nobody pointed out lite/litexl here either it's rendering of ui is very similar (although fonts are via a texture; like a game would) and doesn't focus overly on the GPU but optimises those paths like games circa directx9/opengl 1.3

    https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/renderer.h

  • Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2023
    For any graphic intensive application it would be obviously be necessary to use a GPU.

    But for quick hacking / porting old demos / writing emulators and also text based UI it can be fast enough.

    With the added benefit of small footprint, high compatibility and fast startup time.

    The Lite editor https://github.com/rxi/lite is using pure software rendering (on top of SDL) in a rather naïve fashion but it still renders full 32bit colors at full resolution at more than 60FPS on my computer, not the best solution but still surprisingly fast given the simplicity of the renderer.

    This is typically a case where simple/naïve can beat a juggernaut like Electron.

    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2023
    > is using pure software rendering (on top of SDL) in a rather naïve fashion

    https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/rencache.c#L4

    I think you'll find that they found the naive approach was sufficiently poor, performance wise, that additional optimizations had to be applied on-top.

    > But for quick hacking / porting old demos / writing emulators and also text based UI it can be fast enough.

    /shrug

    If you want to use it, use it. It's 'good enough'...

    > if you vastly lower your expectations

  • Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2022
  • Looking for an IDE with the following characteristics
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 6 Jul 2022
    How about lite https://github.com/rxi/lite
  • Now that Atom has been discontinued - where to next?
    9 projects | /r/linux | 13 Jun 2022
    You have options: - Sublime Text - VsCodium - Lite - https://github.com/rxi/lite
  • 4coder editor is now fully open source
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2022
  • Lapce
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022
    I like the single lapce.exe and loads reasonably fast.

    But this is in a pre pre-alpha stage, so many bugs it's far too early for public feedback. It loads reasonably fast except chrome stats in top left then jerks towards the center. The start page says to bring up the command palette which I was unable to navigate via keyboard.

    The open file dialog takes an eternity to load the first time, the path is in a text box that's not editable. Focusing a text file gives an Insert cursor which is in text mode, there's a noticable slow delay before writing the first character, text selection is non existent so lacks basic text editing features.

    There is a built-in terminal however there's only a single tab.

    The only thing that gives it potential is that the folder/file browsing is super quick even with a node_modules folder so it might be built on efficient rendering that can be improved.

    Even for such a basic editor it's 38mb download. For a far smaller + more complete editor checkout Lite:

    https://github.com/rxi/lite

Apache NetBeans

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache NetBeans. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.
  • 2023 Development Tool Map
    20 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2023
  • How a Zig IDE Could Work
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2023
    > For the most part, Eclipse has fallen into obscurity.

    I guess it depends on the locale/company/environment?

    In most conferences, online videos, as well as among the people I know personally, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA for Java) seem to reign supreme: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

    They have a community version, personally I pay for the Ultimate package of all the tools. They're slightly sluggish, want a lot of RAM, but the actual development experience and features make up for that.

    I know that Eclipse is sometimes used more in an educational setting, however there are also both some specialized tools, as well as customized versions for something like working with Spring in the industry: https://spring.io/tools

    In my experience, the idea behind the IDE is nice (a platform that you can install whatever you want on, entire language support packages, or specialized tool packages), but the execution falls short - sometimes it's unstable, other times it works slow and so on. That said, it's passable.

    I would say that personally I'd almost prefer NetBeans to Eclipse, even after it was given over to the Apache Foundation, which have released a few versions since: https://netbeans.apache.org/

    It seems to do less than either Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA do, but for general purpose Java editing and limited work with other stacks (PHP, webdev stuff, some C/C++) it is good and pleasant to use. However, if you have projects that get close to half a million lines of code, it does just kind of break and gets way slower than the alternatives. It still somehow feels more coherent than Eclipse to me, would pick it if IntelliJ IDEA didn't exist.

    Some also try doing something like using Visual Studio Code with a Java plugin: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java

    That said, I only used that briefly when I needed something lightweight for a netbook of mine, the experience was somewhat underwhelming. The autocomplete or refactoring wasn't as good as IntelliJ IDEA and just felt a little bit tacked on. Then again, that was a while ago, I don't doubt that progress is being made.

  • Some other windows PHP IDEs besides VSCode and PHP Storm
    3 projects | /r/PHP | 5 Feb 2023
    (free) Apache NetBeans is there from ages, and one person on my team still uses it for PHP/web stuff (including the use of xdebug with it) because you know, it works. Some of us care about *what* gets into the repository, not *how* it gets done, as long you're productive.
  • Primeiros passos no desenvolvimento Java em 2023: um guia particular
    13 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    Existem outras IDEs igualmente famosas: Eclipse IDE e NetBeans.
  • 10 open source projects you should be aware of in 2023
    4 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2023
    1. NetBeans
  • HTML / PHP / CSS / JavaScript IDE for MacOS?
    4 projects | /r/MacOS | 27 Nov 2022
    Nobody mentioned (wonder why), but 10 years ago I used work in NetBeans. I thought it was fantastic and I can see it is still being developed.
  • Nemo Linux File Manager UI suggestions.
    2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 19 Oct 2022
    yes, kind of. for me mostly the solid previeuw pannel is important, having more customizablility in where things are would be great to. it would be interesting to see something where you can kind of have settings in a toolbox, all by default have their default behaviour but instances can be altered, and then from there you can kind of drop them on the ui/canvas, quite much like how "Apache netbeans" https://netbeans.apache.org// has a drag and drop interface, but then for customizing the UI Layout of the program, such a thing would be truly revolutionair, and might be usable in many more programs.
  • How to step debug PHP code with Xdebug and PhpStorm on a DDEV setup
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2022
    PhpStorm is also another tool, which has great features for PHP development. I started using it 2 years ago after hearing all the benefits that provided to my coworkers. For more than 13 years, I was be a big fan of Apache Netbeans, which works great with Xdebug too, but some additional steps were needed to have it fully working though, and it used to use too many resources from my computer which became super slow.
  • Starting Out
    3 projects | /r/javahelp | 30 Sep 2022
  • Apache NetBeans 15 Released
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2022
    The NetBeans page does not even say what it is.

    https://netbeans.apache.org/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lite and Apache NetBeans you can also consider the following projects:

lite-xl - A lightweight text editor written in Lua

intellij-plugins - Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

theia - Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.

LSP-pyright - Python support for Sublime's LSP plugin provided through microsoft/pyright.

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

Code-Server - VS Code in the browser

coc-pyright - Pyright extension for coc.nvim

brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

edamagit - Magit for VSCode