There’s a related question to this pretty much every week. :-) It’s an ongoing process, we’re trying to move away from nb-javac, it requires some work still. In the meantime, if you can code without it, that would be great.
Gj On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 21:19, Anthony Vanelverdinghe < anthonyv...@outlook.com> wrote: > My bad, I just noticed there was a related question just last week… > > From: Anthony Vanelverdinghe<mailto:anthonyv...@outlook.com> > Sent: Monday, 27 April 2020 21:16 > To: dev@netbeans.apache.org<mailto:dev@netbeans.apache.org> > Subject: Future of nb-javac and vanilla javac > > Hi > > What is the future direction of NetBeans w.r.t. nb-javac and "vanilla" > javac? > NetBeans recommends nb-javac with a notification that says it “improves > Java editing experience and enables compile on save”. > But on the other hand it lags behind vanilla javac w.r.t. supporting new > language features (obviously), due to which I ran into the issue at [1] > > So I was wondering: how far is vanilla javac behind nb-javac in terms of > functionality? Are there plans to enhance it to the point where nb-javac > becomes obsolete? If so, what would be a rough estimate on when that would > be? > > Thanks in advance for any insights. > > Kind regards, > Anthony > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-4263 > >
