On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of a new version of its NetBeans IDE, 8.0, that takes advantage of the latest enhancements in Java SE 8, among other changes.

NetBeans, a popular Java IDE formerly supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle, has graduated from the Apache Software Foundation's incubator to become a top-level project, where it will benefit ...

Along with the Java platform NetBeans IDE 7.0 supports PHP, JavaScript, Ajax and C/C++. But Hilwa noted that the new release drops support for the Ruby programming language.