Hi Geertjan, Sure it would be good to code without it, but it seems that using the plain vanilla javac leads to some serious caveats according to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Java+Editor+Using+JDK+javac
So we can't reasonabily recommend to people not using the nb-javac, don't you think? Best wishes, Jean-Marc On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:51 PM Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
