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This is really evil. Apple needs to realize that people use the Java JDK for purposes other than writing enterprise Java applications. Some run Python code above the JVM (Jython), for example. I use it to compile Java syntax to native javascript using GWT.

Bad move Apple.

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Excellent point. I hear a lot of talk about running Rails on the JVM as well.

Rails developers also seem to love apple (and I have a mac laptop for my personal use as well). But when I was first getting into rails, it actually took me longer to get up and running on the Mac, (at the time, OS X shipped with a broken Ruby,though this wasn't a huge factor in my difficulties). Not sure if this is still the case, but I only managed to get it all installed because the rails community is mac-centric enough that there were independent posts on how to deal with the quirks of mac installation.

When Mac went to OS X, a lot of developers came thundering back to Apple. And I'd still much rather remain in a Unix world than deal with windows. But I sincerely hope that Apple values the developer commmunity that they've attracted enough to keep it around.

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