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rob74today at 7:28 AM1 replyview on HN

That's true, although, if you look at them, you wouldn't notice. The only mention of JVM you can see in the IDEs is in the About dialog, and the IDEs install and run their own OpenJDK, so no JVM has to be installed globally. Almost as if they were a bit self-conscious about using such an "unsexy" architecture...


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mike_hearntoday at 8:10 AM

Bundling a JDK with the app is the officially sanctioned way to ship Java apps since Java 9, so for over a decade now.

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