I had this problem with PyCharm. The solution was to edit Info.plist inside the executable pseudo-dir, and change the property inside JVMVersion to 1.8 from 1.

I had this problem with PyCharm. The solution was to edit Info.plist inside the executable pseudo-dir, and change the property inside JVMVersion to 1.8 from 1.6. This appeared to work totally fine for me w/ java 1.8 and osx 10.9.