> I could have written the same stuff in maybe 1/4 of the time The only way that might be even remotely true is if you were doing some very over-abstracted, bu

> I could have written the same stuff in maybe 1/4 of the time The only way that might be even remotely true is if you were doing some very over-abstracted, bureaucratic complex bullshit app, but that would have be similarly longer no matter the language. As mentioned, Oracle itself offers that very free, libre same-license-as-linux OpenJDK, like they are responsible for 90+% of commits there. Their own support license sits basically on top the free offering for the very few gigacorps that need it, so basically almost every java implementation is open source as they just redistributed the OpenJDK codebase (yes, there are a few niche ones as well no one ever heard of).