[jeffbee]

I consider myself a "real" developer and I don't use any of that stuff. So far my observations about tool and library availability:

Node: build it from source at HEAD and it works fine. Will work out of the box in release 16.

Java: Get the Azul JRE, works fine.

Go: Has to be bootstrapped from HEAD.

c++ toolchain: works out of the box

cmake: build and install from source release, no problems.

bazel: still doesn't grok darwin_arm64, release build tries to x-compile everything.

anything that needs bazel: doesn't work due to above.

python3: comes in the box, works

R: no native package yet

[rsynnott]

Caveat; if you need Java 15, Azul doesn't have that as yet.

That said, most people probably do not; 11 is still the most recent LTS version, which is what most people would be interested in.