[zootm]

People focus on these because they are usually exploitable through applets; as such they pose a direct threat to users. The recent issues have been mostly irrelevant to "enterprise systems" since so few use Java's sandboxing, and it's typically easy and quick for developers to respond.

If Python was runnable in browsers and widely installed I suspect it would be treated differently in media.

[dragonbonheur]

So in a way despite its age, Java is still like the pioneer with all the arrows sticking out of its back.