I personally stopped using MySQL quite a while ago as well. Java, on the other hand, got resurrected for me with Groovy first, then Clojure (and a passing inter

I personally stopped using MySQL quite a while ago as well. Java, on the other hand, got resurrected for me with Groovy first, then Clojure (and a passing interest in Scala). Yeah, I know about openjdk. But they don't provide official binaries for all I know (and certainly not for Windows, linking back to the Oracle distribution).