Java became de-facto monoculture, there is only one widely used implementation.
You're talking about Android, right?
Javascript itself is a plugin. Any concept of distinction is flawed. Lets say in the panaea of worlds, Oracle gave Java tech and all its reference impl's away for free BSD styled. What if anything would be the harm of writing browser scripts in Java vs. Javascript vs. go vs.
If it was built into every single browser then things would be different. But that doesn't matter right now because it's not. It doesn't matter how great of a technology it is if you can't run it on an iPhone.
The guy that said "Sounds like another good reason to not use Google spyware" does not have a Debian email address.
You mean that guy?
My concern is that Debian, due to the lack of any long-term supported release of Chromium, will be forced to constantly update Chromium to the latest upstream version in their stable distribution.
They already do this. Just look at the changelog.
So, where is the source code for Chrome? No, not Chromium. Chrome.
Every package is not supported in the LTS distribution. Chromium for example is not supported.
Well, I guess he's been lying to me during the two talks I've heard him say that.
Chrome is non-free so most distributions don't distribute it to begin with.
You will have many recoverable tape errors.