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I've been a user of NetBeans IDE for PHP for quite sometime. I use it both at work and at home for personal projects. Lately I haven't done many personal projects so I fired it up on my Mac only to find it utilising 100% of all my CPU cores. This has always been an issue with NetBeans for years and it just seems like they can't be bothered to fix it.

So now I'm on the search for a replacement. At work now I use PHPStorm, but the $200 yearly license for small personal projects is a bit much. So for the time being I'm going to be trying out Atom with the ide-php package. It's a shame really as NetBeans is one of the good IDEs out there, but it's such a resource hog that I'm not sure how people can do any work on it.

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    I think you are looking at the wrong version of PhpStorm: here the personal license (individual) costs 89€/year.
    The licence for business & organization is 199€/yr
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    @HomeAlone Indeed I am. My mistake.
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    @IdolWotaP

    Download a different version of JRE, like an older version or open-jre and set the path for that in NetBeans config file

    Some versions might not work very well, but if you but some time you should end up with a stable environment.

    Used to have that problem on with Windows 15y ago. On some Linux had to do the same
    Right now with an i7 and 16G of ram I really don't find any issue on having NetBeans up along with 2 vagrant boxes 2 or 3 dockers a couple instances of vscode and chrome with 40 tabs kkkk

    Speaking from my usecase, I've found its hard to find a proper IDE that could beat NetBeans out of the box - even paid ones .
    Cheers
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    @DreamWave it could possibly also be the JRE version. But one other minor thing that bugs me is that NetBeans 8 only supports PHP 7.0. Currently working on stuff that uses 7.2 so seeing all these source errors, when they're not, is also a little annoying.

    Maybe I'll wait until NetBeans 9.0 is released.
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