Yale removes Java to enhance security (your.yale.edu)

I’m reminded of the fable about the little Dutch boy sticking his finger in the dyke.

Haven't applets already been disabled for years? How does removing the JRE enhance security in any way beyond that?

Are they also going to remove Python, Ruby, NodeJS, PHP, and every other programming language runtime? Why not?

Hopefully Graal gets more traction, so these Java (and Ruby, NodeJS, Python etc) apps can be compiled to native code, if just to bypass odd decisions like this.

They should have removed Windows.

The publication date is a bit suspicious :)