[smaudet]

> and it has the exact same license as the Linux kernel

Also, I neglected to touch on this point more, perhaps license is not the right word, as much as distribution - I don't know if you have ever tried building the JDK (not simple), or worked with the official JDK vs the open one (not the same functionality), or tried to access old versions of the SDK on the official websites, or had to deal with their installers, etc.

Giant headache and all around.

Not to mention, even if your pacman command works, this is still simply not comparable, the example I used was for installing a jq binary because JRE simply doesn't include this functionality by default...

And now you need the overweight pom/gradle mess to interface with the Java libraries because <insert technical debt reasons here>

[gf000]

The official JDK is the OpenJDK for several years.

Under Sun there were differences, but Oracle open-sourced every last difference and now there is only some Oracle branding logo as the only difference (and maybe some tiny proprietary codec, but your code will run on both the same way).