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Re:It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released by edoloughlin on Monday June 25, 2012 @02:55PM (#4158068)
Do you have an ideological or practical opposition? Java is cross-platform enough for it not to be an issue. Are you memory-constrained?
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Re:It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released by freyday on Monday June 25, 2012 @05:07PM (#4158754)
Mostly due to the security risk. Especially on Windows. Even being a software developer (read: not your average computer user) and taking extra precautions (like click-to-run for java use in browsers) I've still gotten hit by malware that takes advantage of security holes in the Java runtime.
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Re:It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released by cnf on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @03:53AM (#4160740)
I second the exact sentiment on OSX.

And running a VM with linux (or windows, java is as much a pain on either platform) is a lot of effort for running an editor.

As long as it needs java installed, I'm out...

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Re:It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released by lucian1900 on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @04:50AM (#4160849)
Then disable the java plugin for all your browsers. I think you can even disable java web start.
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Re:It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released by __mark__ on Monday June 25, 2012 @10:55PM (#4159995)
You could use a virtual machine running Linux for more security.
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