Once again, there is a choice -- support old hardware or have secure software.

This happened before with the web browsers, and the solution was to either stop using using old computers for web, or run ancient versions, only go to "known good" websites, and hope really hard that you don't end up on a page with exploit by accident.

And now this trickles down to the non-web world as well, and this is potentially much worse -- after all, most of the modern languages require network connectivity of some sort.