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[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 19/12/2020 23:11, leerho wrote:
> To get started, I have one simple question: What IDE do you use for
> development? Neither IntelliJ nor Eclipse supports JDK16 yet.  So I'm
> curious how your team gets around this issue.

Thanks for taking the time to do this experiment - it seems a big enough 
project which could probably provide vary valuable feedback in a number 
of directions (not only regarding performances, but also regarding the 
usability of the API as a whole).

IntelliJ works with the latest Panama early access build, so that should 
be an option for you. As was pointed out in this thread, enabling 
experimental feature level is necessary, as well as changing the 
IntelliJ compiler settings in a number of places (this can be done in 
the IntelliJ's setting menu, under Build/Compiler); specifically, you 
need to add the incubator module (--add-module jdk.incubator.foreign).

This will need to be repeated also for every "Run" configuration you 
create in IntelliJ - e.g. the --add-modules option will need to be 
passed to the VM.

Moreover, if you use the CLinker API, or you are planning to create 
"unsafe" segments, you might also require the runtime property 
"-Dforeign.restricted=permit", to get access to unsafe operations.

With these settings things work ok for me. Note that there is currently 
an issue with IntelliJ and jextract in that if you pick jextract 
classfile generation mode, IntelliJ code completion is broken in certain 
cases - in which case you can select jextract source mode using jextract 
"--source" flag. This is of course only an issue if you plan to use 
jextract.

I hope this helps
Maurizio