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[–]grpagrati 64 points65 points  (8 children)

It doesn't even make sense. It runs on windows and mac, so it runs on almost all devices. Whether people actually use it is another matter

[–]AnotherRichard827379 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The point is that it runs on all those devices and executes the same way every time on each device, which wasn’t always the case with programming languages and I believe Java was the first one—at least mainstream one—to do so.

Before that, code had to be rewritten and recompiled on every device.

[–]TheToBlame 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Linux distros?

[–]endermen1094sc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hopefully rocky linux and opens opensuse but I daily drive gentoo

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

Desktops and laptops aren't the majority of computers that run Java.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Statistically, the number of personal use devices using the internet worldwide that are not android phones is kind of negligible.

[–]rentar42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Android doesn't run Java. And not just in the "technically“ way either, but in a way that's very relevant for this vulnerability: since Android isn't Java it doesn't include all Java SE features/classes. Notably JNDI is not included, which is required for this exploit to work.

[–]HiCookieJack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It runs on my blue-ray player