> This is a religious discussion I know but I want to ask. I have been using > NetBeans, though not a lot with Grails, and I am thinking about starting my > new project in Eclipse instead. Before I do this though I would like to know > what the real differences between the two are, which is better, and why. They are both incredible tools for the price. With that said, I tend not to use Eclipse too much as I can never get it's plugins to work correctly as they tend to stomp all over each other. For serious Grails/Groovy development, you might want to consider shelling out for Intellij IDEA.