[Suggestion]: Make Java Playground compelling about devrel HOT 5 CLOSED

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Thanks for your feedback.

The Playground aims to help developers, including beginners, to explore Java language features. It is not meant to be some sort of online IDE.

This is the initial version, we still have a lot to do but we believe that the overall user experience is crucial, i.e. it needs to be simple and quick, type a snippet, and get the results.

Your solution is impressive but it clearly targets a different audience.

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Thanks for the response, David! I do think the Playground is very nice and an important tool for the community.

The proof of the importance of Java Playground is how much the JavaScript community relies on JSFiddle. We also need a "JavaFiddle" space to share code snippets, do presentations, experiment, teach and support. But JSFiddle is written in JS - and I think our Java Playground would benefit from being implemented in the language it supports.

My solution takes this approach and is targeting the exact same space, it just looks more IDE-ish with the full screen link. It can be configured to just display the Editor+Evaluator just like JP (and loads faster in this form).

I encourage you to look at the new CheerpJ 3 - it is the first real "JVM in the browser". It runs existing jars in the browser with a simple 2 line JS script. It is still preview (launching next month), but it is already fast and lean, and improving daily.

I know you are probably committed to your approach, but I would love to work with you on this or contribute in some way.

Jeff Martin [email protected]

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Thanks for feedback and suggestions and your dedication to the Java ecosystem. We'll consider for the future and reach out directly with questions.

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Thanks Chad. And congratulations all (again) on a great tool - I'm thrilled that Oracle sees this as important!

Please reach out to the CheerpJ people - they are doing amazing work on Java in the browser (including Oracle forms!) and I think they would be thrilled and encouraged to hear from Oracle Dev Relations. Their efforts could use the attention, and CheerpJ 3 would make for a great dev.java news story!

They have a nice discord channel if you want to say hi: https://discord.com/invite/qBMHpK9Kqv

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