About 1, having installed the JDK dozens of times I have never seen the ask toolbar crapware, could be true with the browser plugin (that should have died a lon

About 1, having installed the JDK dozens of times I have never seen the ask toolbar crapware, could be true with the browser plugin (that should have died a long time ago) or the JRE (that I never needed to install). About 3 to be honest I don't care at all of having braces, I actually dislike python because its lack of braces and what says if something is in a block is the indentation (I don't want to care about it when writing code, there are IDEs for that, specially when I move code around a lot), unless I am doing some quick tests on something and I dont have a minimal environment I do need a REPL at all (Java 9 may take care of that). True that Java is not exactly truly open source, I have to agree with that. Java being owned by oracle may be bad but being owned by a bad company does not make it a bad language.