There are allways edge cases indeed
Most people today would rather see jave diaf because of its security holes and a long history of being targeted by hackers,
but theres a rather "hard" core of devs who in no way wishes java to go away and they will not allow anyone to remove it ever as long as they have anything to say in that matter.
Hell they still update it and now also have the open source guys doing work on it with openjdk.
But many also forget that there is no such thing as safe software, it does not exist and newer will.
Mainly because if you plugged all the holes you would end up with something that would not work at all anyway.
And safe hardware... well after the blunder with meltdown and spectre we can safely assume that that is also a pipe dream.
My once pretty monstrous pc only took a hit of about 50% performance loss from the patch that should plug one of the holes,
it also broke a lot of software i was using. Intel is in for a shitstorm the likes that would probably bring them close to bankrupcy,
AMD is also affected but only by spectre, meltdown is intel exclusively.
The problem with spectre is that there actually is no fix, and the hype about pluggin atleast some of the holes might end up breaking more than it fixes (see performance).
But one should probably not be to scared of using a PC ever again since triggering the spectre bug is rather hard (allmost impossible) even without these patches.
But meltdown is a big problem and unfortunatly i have an intel
so basically my only saving grace would be buying a new cpu (and i can asure intel it will newer be from them ever again) so ill probably get a ryzen when i saved up enough.
Productivity is a state of mind.