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Do you have an ideological or practical opposition? Java is cross-platform enough for it not to be an issue. Are you memory-constrained?

• freyday 14y ago
  Mostly due to the security risk. Especially on Windows. Even being a software developer (read: not your average computer user) and taking extra precautions (like click-to-run for java use in browsers) I've still gotten hit by malware that takes advantage of security holes in the Java runtime.
  • __mark__ 14y ago
    You could use a virtual machine running Linux for more security.
  • cnf 14y ago
    I second the exact sentiment on OSX. And running a VM with linux (or windows, java is as much a pain on either platform) is a lot of effort for running an editor. As long as it needs java installed, I'm out...
  • lucian1900 14y ago
    Then disable the java plugin for all your browsers. I think you can even disable java web start.