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Runtime environment based on OpenJDK for running IntelliJ Platform-based products on Windows, macOS, and Linux

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-12-30 · latest 2026-04-30

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  1. …JRebel has killed their free tier, so I'd now point unwilling-to-pay programmers to something like https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime which is IntelliJ/Eclipse/whatever-independent. I haven't tried it myself yet though... Given…
  2. …Java is addressing them. The first bullet is possible with the JetBrainsRuntime, a fork of OpenJDK: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime The second bullet is a headline goal of Project Valhalla, however it is unlikely to be…
  3. …at times however I found it to be rather clunky, does Espresso improve on this aspect? 1: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime 2: https://dcevm.github.io/ 3: https://hotswapagent.org/
    comment by JavierFlores09 · 2024-12-19 · in Java in the Small
  4. Here you can see the work being done on IntelliJ Wayland: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/issues/242 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-3206/Native-Wayland...
  5. JetBrains have their tweaks to the JRE available: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime The major problems begin when you want to leverage the GPU or multimedia components in which case you would want something else.
  6. Dcevm is regularly released from JetBrains as part of their JDK. https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime Also with 'Java on Truffle' on GraalVM you can use enhanced class reloading https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/java-…
  7. JetBrains literally has to ship its own fork of the JRE for things like decent font rendering: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime In its success it shows how badly Java has failed.
    comment by howinteresting · 2022-03-02 · in The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
  8. …kick-ass, commercially successful, mainstream desktop software using Java/Swing today. [1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime
  9. …I've been running with ShenandoahGC for quite some time now and it's been working great. Also, see https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/releases/tag/j... for a JDK17 runtime for Intellij products. I've been running this too and it…
    comment by astange · 2021-11-24 · in GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
  10. …fork with most patches improving font rendering/anti-aliasing https://github.com/JetBrains/jdk8u https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime