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Wow, what flame-bait. NB has become very competitive, and is (IMO) the best IDE for Ruby development that exists.

I do agree with the author that when I was playing with Swing stuff, I was disappointed in Matisse, but I think that points more to the deficiencies of Swing in general (data binding and such) rather than Matisse in particular.

The UML editor and forward/reverse engineering is also top-notch, especially for a free tool.

I just switched to NetBeans from Aptana RadRails for Rails/Ruby dev on the Mac.
I use still use Textmate for some editing, but I love the power of a real IDE like NB.

NetBeans 6.1 overall responsiveness is worse compared to Eclipse Ganymede but it is an excellent IDE. Earlier versions of Netbeans are not good but NB 6.1 is really far better than Eclipse GanyMede [from my experience]. I am going to use NB 6.1 for further development.

With a 2-18 vote, why is this on the Rising Links list ?

Look, that was my idea - it has a good tool for reveng, good for ruby, even good Matisse (I actually have no complaints about Matisee - it is find). But basic editing and general features are somewhat buggy. And hence everything is spoiled.