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JetBrains does a lot in the .NET world too. They'd still have a business. Developers trusted Sun much more than Oracle with Java. Java wouldn't have been born

• pjmlp 9y ago
  First of all, JetBrains IDEs run all on top of Java, except for the Visual Studio plugins they also develop. Second, while it is great that .NET is now open source, the libraries that would allow for something like InteliJ to be build across multiple OSes aren't quite there yet. Finally I was actually referring to the fact, which I hate to see done by some in new languages that target JVM communities, is spiting on the plate that gives them food. Without the JVM those languages wouldn't even exist in first place. Yes Sun had a more engineering friendly culture than Oracle has, but they also did tons of missteps. Specially in what concerns making Java appealing for the desktop, something that for incredibly as it may sound, has been better handled by Oracle.
• cat199 9y ago
  IBM is a pretty good check on any theoretical Oracle crazyness in the java arena via the JCP and is very invested in java.. I wouldn't be too worried here.
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    They seem pretty keen in turning J9 into a multi-language VM and pushing Swift on GNU/Linux and their other OSes.