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• Installing JDKs via nix-darwin  15 Nov 2023  nix macos java nix-darwin

  I’m in the process of moving as many of the installed packages and as much of the configuration of my Mac to nix-darwin. Among the packages that I want on my Mac are various versions of JDKs¹. The way that macOS interacts with JDKs is a bit tricky, so the standard Nix or nix-darwin install doesn’t work, but we can make it work.

  1. why, you may ask. Good question. I don’t actually know if there’s anything that I still use Java for. I used to use it for FRC, though. ↩

• Setting Up A Blank 2021 FRC Project  16 Jan 2021  frc gradle java

  Our FRC team, AFS RooBotics, uses GradleRIO but not VS Code and the official plugins. We use the free educational version of IntelliJ, but that means that we need to set up our projects each year on our own. That’s complicated. What does it entail?