I won't speak to Java itself, but I will say that -- crapware side-effects aside -- the Java SE installation process has actually improved since Oracle bought o

I won't speak to Java itself, but I will say that -- crapware side-effects aside -- the Java SE installation process has actually improved since Oracle bought out Sun. Whether coincidence or causative, I don't know. It runs more quickly, and it only has a single instance of a single level of nested installers (for the JRE). A couple of years ago, the installation process had gotten simply bleep-awful, especially after they tacked JavaFX onto it, which installation seemed to take even longer than the installation of the rest of the SE package.