What IDE has better support for groovy, Netbeans or Eclipse? [closed]

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What IDE has better support for groovy, Netbeans or Eclipse?

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Last additions to Eclipse integration with Groovy added almost everything needed to the old plugin (which lacked some features) so my points go to Eclipse.

Now the plugin is quite mature and updated very often (3 days ago last update). Key features taken from here:

• Syntax highlighting
• Type inferencing
• Compile and run Groovy classes and scripts in Eclipse
• Outline view for Groovy files
• Auto-completion
• Refactoring
• Source code formatting
• Basic debug support

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Short answer

Eclipse

Longer answer

The Groovy-Eclipse plugin used to be unspeakably awful, but it has improved out of all recognition since version 2.X. If you want Grails (rather than just Groovy) support, the simplest option is to install the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), which supports Groovy, Grails and lots of other products under the Spring portfolio.