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eastbound on Jan 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

> It’s crazy how far ahead Apple is getting in the laptop game with these new chips.

Sure, but developing with Java up-to-16 is much slower with M1/M2 due to ports not being available, and Rosetta having to emulate. Datapoint: We develop plugins for Confluence and it’s about 1 minute to load each page.

I don’t think developing Java 11 is a corner case of using a Mac.

threeseed on Jan 17, 2023 | [–]

ARM builds have been available for a while now even for Java 11.

* AWS Corretto: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-11-ug/d...

* Eclipse Temurin: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=11

* IBM Semeru: https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/dow...

* Oracle GraalVM: https://github.com/graalvm/graalvm-ce-builds/releases/tag/vm...

eastbound on Jan 20, 2023 | | [–]

Thank you. You saved us dozens of hours.

david_allison on Jan 17, 2023 | | [–]

Azul Zulu works great: https://www.azul.com/downloads/?package=jdk#download-openjdk

thrashh on Jan 17, 2023 | | [–]

The Java ARM versions don’t work for you?

syspec on Jan 17, 2023 | [–]

Hmm, works great here. I use ARM Java

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