Bearfruit

Excellent Blog post matt. Congratulations on winning the Netbeans 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest!

Looks like a lot has improved only since after you blogged ! (netbeans improving at supersonic speed!)

Most of the points you’ve mentioned against Netbeans don’t hold true anymore.. :)

Here are some updates in Netbeans 6.1:

-New Swank PHP Support in Netbeans Early Access for PHP - Create Projects, Deploy, Run, Debug (yes, even debug!) (http://wiki.netbeans.org/PHP)
-JavaScript Editor with Semantic Highlighting, Refactoring, etc, Debugger and much more (http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript)

Coming Soon - Projects being developed under Netbeans Innovator’s Grant (http://www.netbeans.org/grant):

NBPython
NB-XUL (XUL Support in Netbeans coming soon!)