These should give you enough to get started, but in the real world, you will need more. Now… if you really want, you can also install Eclipse through Cask…And I will leave it to you :-) More tools!

Visual Studio Code $ brew cask info visual-studio-code IntelliJ IDEA $ brew cask info intellij-idea-ce NetBeans IDE $ brew cask info netbeans-java-ee

It is also a good idea to always check the package version on Cask and compare with the latest on the website of the tool. So that is why I am sticking to java8 below, but feel free to just say java, and cask will pick the latest (9). Some of them need changes in Maven POM files, and I just want to get them up and running. Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK)Īlthough Java 9 is available, many of my projects are quite still on Java 8. The next step is to install some basic tools for Java development.

Install CaskĬask is a complementary tool for Homebrew that extends to other capabilities such as installing common desktop applications distributed as DMG files somewhere on the Internet, but that are not available on Homebrew directly. Walkthrough it.īesides the terminal, by following the article above you also get Homebrew, the missing package manager for Mac. This is one article I found that helped me set up my iTerm2. No developer should rely solely on mouse and windows, so a powerful command-line interface is a must! And as I said before, I do know how to exit vim.įirst of all, you will need a decent terminal. And given the similarities (in the terminal) between Mac and Linux, I chose the former. Note: this article is a fragment of the original article about my new job at Microsoft.Īt Microsoft I was given two options: either I’d get a Mac, or a Windows laptop.

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