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?
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.
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? 💜
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?
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.
Pushing GraalVM is on our Roadmap. However, not at the top so far, but we are reevaluating at least every quarter :)
# Push it, push it real good # - Salt N Pepa
(Please.)
They adresss this in the short Q&A at the end of the announcement article.
I assume you mean the OpenJDK11/17 issue, because I don't see any mention of Graal in the official announcement article...
Yes, I was referring to future JDK versions.
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!