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If anyone goes this route, I highly recommend- If you do get an IDE, include the path to the 1.8 JRE for the Java Compiler to enable 1.8 compliance asYou must be registered to see the linkstend to break backward compatibility, then enable 1.8 compliance in that specific project.
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. They have a free Community Edition available that has more than enough features to get things rolling. It makes it pretty easy to juggle around a few different JDKs, and is even capable of downloading them automatically (it installs them to your user profile, too, so you don't end up with a bunch of extra environment variables and other clutter), and it's available on any platform that can run Java.To top it all off, it offers a much smoother development experience than I ever had with Eclipse. It has its own set of quirks, like all other IDEs, but it's my favorite one so far.
I haven't been an active poster here for too long (and I still mostly lurk, aside from a handful of threads) but I get the impression that staffers are more likely to police known-volatile threads. I'm sure if we were constant at each others' throat we'd get a lot more scrutiny, but we generally keep it civil (and when things got out of hand the mods were pretty quick to get things back on track).There are a few threads around with autowarns and/or autobans the instant a complaint or non-content post shows up because the staff had it with the mess and those threads were much younger than this one when the waves started.