NetBeans 6.1 beta is getting pretty good!

I've been test-driving the new beta of NetBeans 6.1 through the night.

I'm impressed with what it delivers.

The high points for me are:

* usability: it's quick, it has the shortcuts I use often, and the UI doesn't look like monkey poo flung to a wall, like the previous versions with the GTK L&F did

* library support: it supports Spring 2.5 out of the box! If I want to get someone to try out Spring for the first time, I'll direct them to NB 6.1. Even its wizard-generated projects and code files look fairly sensible, which is very rare.

* default SVN, CVS and Mercurial support: I've been playing around with Mercurial for a while, lamenting its lack of a Eclipse plugin, and this has been a nice opportunity to experience what working with Mercurial in a graphical environment would feel like.