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    NetBeans

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ANetBeans is a free and open source platform and integrated development environment (IDE).N/A

    Swiftify

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    When Apple rolled out Swift back in 2014, Objective-C was set to be replaced. Even nowadays, however, there are plenty of apps and projects that still use Objective-C, and developers are faced with the prospect of either starting again from scratch or attempting to convert them to Swift. Swiftify for Xcode is designed to automate much of the conversion process, handling the task of replacing syntax while letting you focus on other aspects of migrating your project to…

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    NetBeansSwiftify
    Editions & Modules
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    Pay As You Go
    $5
    per file
    Cloud 30 (Monthly)
    $49
    30 files per month
    Cloud 100 (Monthly)
    $99
    100 files per month
    Cloud 300 (Monthly)
    $199
    300 files per month
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    $299
    1000 files per month
    Cloud 30 (Yearly)
    $399
    300 files per year
    Cloud 100 (Yearly)
    $799
    1000 files per year
    Cloud 300 (Yearly)
    $1,599
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    $2,399
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    NetBeansSwiftify
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    NetBeansSwiftify
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (22 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NetBeansSwiftify
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in Eclipse. It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools.
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    Swiftify
    It is recommended to use Swiftify in any situation that requires iOS development because even if you develop just in Swift or just in Objective-C, it could be helpful for researching and investigating purposes. Additionally, if you need to convert big quantities of code from Objective-C to Swift, this tool will optimise that work. It will not translate a whole class of 2000 lines perfectly, but after converting it you can review the code and modify the lines that have not been properly converted, making you save more than the 50% of the time in that case. I've not been able to test it properly as I only used the trial version and it is really limited.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem.
    • Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools.
    • Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish.
    • Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools.
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    Swiftify
    • Helps to prevent redoing the whole code.
    • Sometimes it is hard to find the exact command of Obj-C in swift.
    • It helped me to learn more :)
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans.
    • File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files.
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    Swiftify
    • Sometimes the conversion doesn't make much sense. The Swift conversion doesn't compile, or is not optimized.
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    Usability
    Open Source
    Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code.
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    Swiftify
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums.
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    Swiftify
    I don't have any problems with the platform. I like that their email responses are fast.
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    Open Source
    It works very smoothly as compared to other tools . The problem of restarting and reimporting the projects is not in the netbeans IDE . The front end development features are good . Netbeans connector is one of the best thing which enables us to deeply integrate netbeans IDE with google chrome browser
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    Swiftify
    There's not much to compare - we haven't found any proprietary like it. Existing OpenSource solutions are unmaintained and Swiftify supports the latest versions of Swift.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work.
    • Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this.
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    Swiftify
    • For now the impact has been small, considering that I used the trial version, it was helpful for small conversions. Summarising: Saving time on researching process
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