I am a Java developer, Computer Science educator and regular Netbeans user. Although I do not currently actively develop for the Netbeans team, I am subscribed to the developer mailing list and actively follow the Netbeans Developer Community through it. @david_munoz I think your comments regarding the developers of Netbeans are high misplaced. "Apache" do not develop Netbeans - the Netbeans team, a small community of dedicated volunteers do. Many have been active contributors to the development since Sun first introduced Netbeans and have taken on the Herculean task of migrating the code from its previous ownership by Oracle corp., with dozens of different code-bases, conflicting licenses etc., to a single fully open source project, with one code-base, running under an Apache umbrella with a single Apache license. Issues with MacOS builds of Netbeans are discussed frequently on the mailing list and the developers aim to support MacOS fully for every release of both products. The key here is that Apple do not seem to make it easy for people developing outside of their ecosystem, especially Java devlopers, and they seem keen to turn MacOS into the same kind of 'no user serviceable parts' affair as iOS. As a developer, if you feel strongly that is not being give a high enough priority, why not get involved yourself and try helping fix it? The guys at netbeans.apache.org would certainly welcome your contributions.