Yes, you read correctly. We just announced the Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK on Twitter and on the official announcement.
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Holy shit! So what's Microsoft's strategy here? Is it just OpenJDK or do you guys add some stuff like IBM does with its JDK? What about the JVM, is it Hotspot? Any plans regarding GraalVM?
It's mainly OpenJDK. We'll also continue contributing to OpenJDK and to sponsor AdoptOpenJDK. But in order to offer support and to make sure that critical patches and features can be added in no time, we need this Microsoft Build of Open JDK.
We need it anyhow for our in-house 500k+ JVMs and then thought, why not give back? Why not give back to the community? 💜
I love the new Microsoft. 😃
Thank you, Sandra!
Thank you for sharing this feedback!
This was my concern, too. If, and it's a big if, they push GraalVM and help Spring to make something that "just works" - I'll be interested.
I understand why they say it's OpenJDK 11, because LTS, so I would hope they have later versions too, otherwise there's an awful lot to catch up on by the time 17 launches as LTS later this year.
They adresss this in the short Q&A at the end of the announcement article.
Just hoping that googling How To Install Java, would get builds other than Oracle's.
I've been using sdkman.io/ for a while now. Gives me the option to choose versions and builds. Not sure if it fits your needs, but you could give it a shot.
lol. Of course I know how, but not for most laypersons that I don't want to bundle JRE.
Personally I use choco to handle that. Easy:
But I get what you mean - it's immediately apparent how to do it for someone who isn't well-versed in the opensource side of Java's ecosystem.
Yes, I also stick with that and use chocolately or homebrew to install and use OpenJDK for my dev machine. But for the apps in production, we need to speak about support as well
SDKMan
😆
I thought you called that C#
Yes, but C# makes you use Dictionary when what you're using isn't a Dictionary and I'm irrationally annoyed by that...
hahahaha, as there would be just one solution 😂
I am sure the timing had nothing to do with the Supreme Court ruling against Oracle on Monday the 5th theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/goo... and supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18...
no, nothing.
Last time this happened Sun got angry and C# was released so....
Luckily things got a lot more open since then
Whoa
YES!
i didn't even use java but i think this is good for open source first dotner now this im still waiting for typesafe python though
Unexpected! Unanticipated! Unbelievable!
woaaaaaah .... awesome
Lol.. I only use Java for Android, did this Microsoft Java import that?
I'd go with developer.android.com/ for mobile development