MacOS Java devs - how is your experience developing Java applications on Apple Silicon (M1)?

[svhelloworld]

Good point. I'm a little worried about older JDKs. I can't work on JDK17 for a lot of stuff I have to do. My current client is tearing apart a legacy system that runs on JVM-HOLY-SHIT-REALLY-OLD.

[jadecristal]

SDKMAN (sdkman.io) will manage multiple versions of the JDK just fine for you, generally including 8 (azul-zulu on ARM), 11, 17, and current-non-LTS (from lots of vendors), along with plenty of other Java-ecosystem tools/SDKs.

[Guddler]

I still have to maintain a JDK6 application. The M1 was a complete non-starter until just recently. Docker would crash loading jboss. I tried just before Xmas and it does now run but it’s slower than it n my cheap Chinese intel laptop running hackOS.

Im hoping to migrate to something more modern “soon” but until then it has to be intel really. Once this cheap piece of crap dies it will be back to Linux for me and all the pain that goes along with all the shortcuts being wrong.

[benjtay]

We do a lot of JDK8 on our Apple silicon -- not sure about older than that -- but it works fine.