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Dumb question: for home/hobby type coding, what is the best JDK to install on my Mac?
by timmg 5y ago
Dumb question: for home/hobby type coding, what is the best JDK to install on my Mac?
- thom 5y agoI often use Liberica cos it’s easy to get JavaFX packaged in.
- dmos62 5y agoFor hobby coding, I'd say the more interesting question is which GC to use.
- jeffbee 5y agoAzul for M1 macs.
- grishka 5y agoI use the M1-native one from adoptium.net
- MartinCron 5y agoNot a dumb question at all. JDK choice is intimidating when you're not in Java-land all day, every day. IntelliJ lets you download + install + switch between JDKS really easily, which I've found indispensable. As another person commented, the Liberica JDKs with JavaFX built in are my go-to for hobby type coding.
- sswezey 5y agoI found this website for picking JDKs to be pretty helpful and unbiased: http://whichjdk.com/ http://whichjdk.com/
- CodeMage 5y agoI miss the days when we didn't need sites like this one, but I'm extremely glad it exists and thankful to you for helping me discover it.
- Traubenfuchs 5y agoOSX? Brew. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openjdk https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openjdk If you don't use brew to install your software, you probably should start doing so. Windows? Chocolately. https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/openjdk https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/openjdk
- timmg 5y agoHuh. I do use Brew. I guess I never considered that it would have a JDK package, though. No explanation as to why I never thought of it.
- frou_dh 5y agoRemember to do the manual step that brew tells you at the end, so that the system-level "java" executable/shim gets hooked up to the JDK.
- vips7L 5y agoI don’t really like chocolatey. Scoop feels way more open with regards to source code and being able to contribute changes to the repos.