[alkonaut]

Don't JetBrains just ship with their JRE and always ignore any "system" JRE? That feels like the correct solution, at least once your app gets to a certain size so the size of the JRE can be ignored. Also JetBrains' apps look good enough I'd say.

Another pretty one with a java frontend is BitWig. That's perhaps more impressive than any JetBrains app.

[nottorp]

IntelliJ can have its own dependency hell, don't worry. Not so often but it happens.

Last time I upgraded an old install i wasn't using, it pulled its own JRE, then pulled a new gradle which promptly complained about the JRE Android Studio installed itself.

Had to do some googling and force it to use a JRE that both the IDE and gradle liked.

But as I said, that doesn't happen often. It's just funny when it does, in a masochistic sort of way.