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You just can't get away from Java these days. Everything uses it or javascript whether you have a smart phone or are browsing the net. Java is an easy programming language (well, relatively easy as much as any programming language is) that runs on anything. Do you have a smart phone? Then you've got java because almost all of the apps are written in java whether you've got an iPhone or Android or probably even Windows based phone. Do you surf the web, then almost every web page that you see has some java script somewhere on it. Many/most webpages will work if you disable the javascript, but some just won't work at all without it. And probably not so much with most consumer apps, but definitely if you use many business apps, eventually you're going to run across something that is almost completely based on java.

In my experience, at least, it's crap. Yes, it runs everywhere, but most of the stuff that I've had to deal with that is mostly java based ends up being slow and buggy.

I run "noscript" in firefox and selectively enable java per page and it speeds up my browsing experience a lot. Not to mention that most of the stuff that stalks you on the internet is java based, so by disabling java, I should be tracked a bit less. Yes, I can still be tracked, but I bet disabling java cuts that down by 50% or more.

I could be wrong. programming isn't my strong suit.