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Apple is a huge Java shop. They're quite secretive but a very large portion (the great majority?) of their backend is Java. OpenJDK has a Linux/AArch64 port, a

by pron 6y ago

Apple is a huge Java shop. They're quite secretive but a very large portion (the great majority?) of their backend is Java. OpenJDK has a Linux/AArch64 port, and it will have a macOS/AArch64 port, too.

super_mario 6y ago
A lot of Java software is stuck in JDK 1.8. I wonder if anyone will port old versions like this to AArch64 and macOS 11.
- vbsteven 6y ago
  1.8 applications run and compile fine on JRE 11 and up
  - super_mario 6y ago
    Not necessarily. Apache Spark for example, prior to just released 3.0.0 did not work with anything later than JDK 1.8.x. Apache Cassandra in version 3.x.y does not work with 1.11. Version 4.x will support JDK 1.11. Things are not that simple unfortunately.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Apple has supposedly prepared a patch for OpenJDK to make it work on Apple Silicon.
rjsw 6y ago
There are several BSD ports of OpenJDK to AArch64, anything Linux specific has already been fixed.
panzagl 6y ago
Do they currently run their backend on MacOS?
- oneplane 6y ago
  No they do not. They (as some would maybe not expect) even use Oracle software as backend for some systems. But not macOS. Unless you count developer workstations and things like Xcode build servers or their ASD replacement.
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