Richard.
took me a second to realize you meant rms. do you know him personally?
Simply put, I have absolutely no apps that depend on JAVA and this is exactly why. As someone else said, the best solution is to removed JAVA entirely and never let it near your system again. Friends don't let friends install Java and we don't do windows
awesome grammar nazi troll. i was getting all excited and then it was suddenly as though you realized java isn't an acronym right before the end of your post.
You'd think they'd know better as they can often quote all sorts of statistical sort or database traversal, O(log n), big-o little-o, etc, but when you get them with a common sense thing about code performance issue, they appear to get some sort of temporary lobotomy.
... thus leading to premature optimization, "the root of all evil in programming" - knuth
Core pieces like GTK are outdated and a poor platform for building a desktop environment. If you try to contribute, you run into a buzz saw of red tape and gate keepers. If you want to write an app today and publish tomorrow, you need to be on Android or iOS.
tried qt?
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.