# Anyone using Processing in Archlinux or Vim's plugin: Vim-processing?

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/anyone-using-processing-in-archlinux-or-vims-plugin-vim-processing/8655>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [February 23, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/anyone-using-processing-in-archlinux-or-vims-plugin-vim-processing/8655 "2019-02-23T07:43:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![nyquil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bcef8e/32.png) [@nyquil](https://discourse.processing.org/u/nyquil)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/anyone-using-processing-in-archlinux-or-vims-plugin-vim-processing/8655/1 "2019-02-23T07:43:05Z")

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Interested in learning a bit of processing, so just curious how well arch’s processing from the repository runs (since it uses openjdk), and also is anyone using this vim-processing for their vim? it hasn’t been updated in years it seems ☹

\*lastly, what are some of the best books or materials you would recommend for a beginner?

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**Author:** ![monkstone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/monkstone/32/64_2.png) [@monkstone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monkstone)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/anyone-using-processing-in-archlinux-or-vims-plugin-vim-processing/8655/2 "2019-02-23T08:27:22Z")

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Processing works fine with openjdk8 on Archlinux, but not with openjdk11. If you want both installed you can use [archlinux-java](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/java#Switching_between_JVM) to switch between java versions. Currently [sampottinger](https://github.com/sampottinger/processing/tree/java11_pre_jigsaw/core/src/processing/core) is working on making processing compatible with jdk11. For processing in ruby I have released a version of [propane](https://github.com/ruby-processing/propane) which is compiled and works with openjdk11 (or Oracle version). Propane sketches can be run from vim

```bash
:!jruby %

```

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**Author:** ![hamoid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/hamoid/32/58_2.png) [@hamoid](https://discourse.processing.org/u/hamoid)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/anyone-using-processing-in-archlinux-or-vims-plugin-vim-processing/8655/3 "2019-02-23T13:16:37Z")

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It seems to work fine with java-10-openjdk too. I’ve done several projects with it.