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Comment by nathell

11 hours ago

Fortunately, the Java ecosystem isn’t JS where breakage is so common that you have to be extra careful about the version of Node you’re using. As a Clojure programmer, I have never seen a case where it mattered which vendor my JVM was coming from, and 95% of the time I don’t care which version I’m using, as long as it’s reasonably recent.

For the remaining 5%, on macOS, my JVM version manager is this zsh one-liner:

    jvm () { export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v $1`; }

> I have never seen a case where it mattered which vendor my JVM was coming from

As I understand it, Oracle's JVMs only get free updates for a limited time. If you keep using them after that you risk getting caught in a license audit.