After trying out Komodo Edit I decided to give NetBeans a whirl. Here's the summary: NetBeans is a pleasant to use, reasonably well-polished IDE that mysteriously seems to be missing certain key features that even Komodo Edit has. If I were to put my finger on it, I'd say that NetBeans is better at being an IDE (doing things such as code completion, code tips, etc.), but has a worse editor (for instance, it lacks a rectangle selection mode and it has no option to rewrap a multi-line comment block). From the Web Site Here are some high-level bits from the web site along with some of my own comments: In addition to full support of all Java platforms (Java SE, Java EE, Java ME, and JavaFX), the NetBeans IDE 6.5 is the ideal tool for software development with PHP, Ajax and JavaScript, Groovy and Grails, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and C/C++. Discover the joys of Python programming with the NetBeans IDE for Python Early Access. Enjoy great editor features such as code completion,