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Which Version of JDK Should I Use?
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Add reasoning for recommendations #21

Closed jansu76 closed 1 year ago

jansu76 commented 1 year ago

What a lovely resource!

Some of the recommendations are without written out reasoning or rationale. For example Alibaba Dragonwell has a "red stop sign" with "Do not use unless you are forced"....and Red Hat OpenJDK has a "yellow warning" with "Use only if you are running on RHEL".

I would probably agree with those recommendations, but have only a really fuzzy thought process behind that. Alibaba...well I have never heard anyone using it, and it's Chinese, so it sounds a bit iffy. Red Hat....well, don't know much about that, to be honest I have no idea if it's better or worse option that e.g. Corretto.

I can only guess if you just went through a similar fuzzy thought process or if you had some specific points about Alibaba, Red Hat, Microsoft, etc that mean those should be avoided. It would be nice to see what the basis for not-recommending some options were, if I am sometimes in a position where I need to consider Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, Alibaba, Red Hat OpenJDK, etc. Even if reason is simply "there are more established options out there" or "I don't know enough of this one", it can be useful to know see that that's the basis of the recommendation.

jochenchrist commented 1 year ago

Fair point. I just added "There are more established options available." to some options.

I will extend reasoning next time I iterate options.