> The Java installation is a 1-time think. It's also a quick google away. I see this complaint a lot, I never understand it. It's plain and simple bikeshedding:

> The Java installation is a 1-time think. It's also a quick google away. I see this complaint a lot, I never understand it. It's plain and simple bikeshedding: someone complaining about a 1-time task that takes 5 minutes in total. I frequently find that the particular constellation of build tooling and libraries particular projects have requires a particular version of the jvm and all the environment variables set up correctly. In some other languages there is widely used tooling to manage the install and use of the appropriate platform version for the project. If you're working with a variety of projects, fiddling with the installed jvm and java_home and friends is not a one time thing.