Netbeans 6 beating emacs?

There has been a lot of fuzz about Netbeans 6 Ruby support. And there still is.

A lot of hardcore Ruby folks have historically been using (X)Emacs, among other reasons because of it's way of being easy to expand and personalize.

But hardcore Ruby guys, like i.e. Charles Nutter - one of the guys from the core JRuby core team which are responsible for making Ruby Rock on the Java platform - swears to Netbeans 6 ruby support.

Read his oppinion about Netbeans 6 and it's support for Ruby here:
http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/08/netbeans-ruby-support-is-bomb.html

In the comments to the post, a guy actually states, that he is one of those who has trashed XEmacs for ruby in favor of Netbeans! :-)

Charles' post includes links to Netbeans' Ruby features pages, and mentions the existence of a Ruby-only version of Netbeans 6.

The Ruby-only version can be found here:
http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby/

The download is merely 30 MB!

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