RIP Java

Java has long been considered a security vulnerability, complaints regarding Oracle's plugin have persisted since its creation in 1995.

For over twenty years experts have routinely poured scorn on the once ubiquitous plugin. As per Oracle:

"By late 2015, many browser vendors have either removed or announced timelines for the removal of standards based plugin support, eliminating the ability to embed Flash, Silverlight, Java and other plugin based technologies.

With modern browser vendors working to restrict and reduce plugin support in their products, developers of applications that rely on the Java browser plugin need to consider alternative options such as migrating from Java Applets (which rely on a browser plugin) to the plugin-free Java Web Start technology.

Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9. This technology will be removed from the Oracle JDK and JRE in a future Java SE release."

Critics have argued that this latest development is redundant with most major browsers having abandoned Java already.