I doubt it. Mac os x's current share amongst the target market for IntelliJ and Netbeans is easily 20% or more. They cannot afford for their product to work like crap on a mac. One way or another they'll make it work. Even if the sky does fall down and apple doesn't come out with any new javas from here on out, then either the market bundles its powers and creates their own swing-on-cocoa layer for macs, or some workaround is put in place until that happens, such as running netbeans on awt-on-swt, or just running on X11. Because swing does all the painting, whether you run on X11 or directly on cocoa doesn't make that much of a difference in the first place.
That's in the vanishingly unlikely scenario that apple will not have a java 1.7 release out by the time that eclipse, IntelliJ, and netbeans no longer are capable of running on java 1.6. Which will probably take over a decade before that'll be true. So, when I say this is FUD, I wasn't kidding. On May 6, 1:02 pm, Lloyd Meinholz <[email protected]> wrote: > These are mean as honest questions, I'm not trying to nit-pick here... > > Why didn't Sun provide a JDK for MacOSX like it (eventually) did for Windows > and Linux? Did Apple take the lead because they thought they would provide > the best LOF for the graphical parts, because Sun didn't have the extra > resources, both or some other reason? > > I guess if you prefered netbeans or IntelliJ the Swing issue might be a > bigger deal. > > Lloyd > > On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Because, Lloyd, the OpenJDK is here, and that IS the same thing. The > > curve of the official apple VM's lag is also sharply on its way down, > > in case you're developing Swing / JavaFX, where I have already > > conceded there's very minor concern. The vast majority of java > > programmers I know of write servers, web apps, command line tools, or > > SWT (which has been tracking on apple nicely, and neither sun nor > > apple is doing anything for it). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
