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Comment by timmg | Hacker News Reader

Dumb question: for home/hobby type coding, what is the best JDK to install on my Mac?

I found this website for picking JDKs to be pretty helpful and unbiased: http://whichjdk.com/

I miss the days when we didn't need sites like this one, but I'm extremely glad it exists and thankful to you for helping me discover it.

Not a dumb question at all. JDK choice is intimidating when you're not in Java-land all day, every day.

IntelliJ lets you download + install + switch between JDKS really easily, which I've found indispensable.

As another person commented, the Liberica JDKs with JavaFX built in are my go-to for hobby type coding.

If you don't use brew to install your software, you probably should start doing so.

Huh. I do use Brew. I guess I never considered that it would have a JDK package, though. No explanation as to why I never thought of it.

Remember to do the manual step that brew tells you at the end, so that the system-level "java" executable/shim gets hooked up to the JDK.

I don’t really like chocolatey. Scoop feels way more open with regards to source code and being able to contribute changes to the repos.

For hobby coding, I'd say the more interesting question is which GC to use.

I often use Liberica cos it’s easy to get JavaFX packaged in.

Azul for M1 macs.

I use the M1-native one from adoptium.net