I won't say that tiobe has a very good method for getting their statistics... http://www.devtopics.com/most-popular-programming-languages/

How can you say that Java has no vulnerabilities? They've had a number of critical security updates which you hopefully didn't miss. You might want to read up on that .net cryptographic attack. The outcomes of it were that you could edit encrypted cookies and download any file in a sites directory and as you know, only a fool would trust the client and sites are supposed to serve files so also, only a fool would put critical information in any of those files in plaintext.

Those trendy features do save time and money. Or do you get paid by the line when you code?

I'm guessing from the number of crypto and imaging components that this is related to their recent JS math optimizations.

The only decent benchmark I've ever seen for browsers is something someone made which simply loaded local copies of sites like facebook to show how fast the browser really is at true "realistic workloads".

It always amazes me when reading Slashdot, which is so against software patents, that I see "Apple hasn't created anything" or "Apple stole everything they've ever made" statements time and time again. Can you imagine a world where we didn't use past ideas to further current ones?

To put it in a car analogy, think if the first person to build one had said to themselves, "Damn, if only I'd thought of the wheel!" Of course we'd have hover-cars so it wouldn't be so bad.

So there is something to be genuinely concerned about. I'm not sure if you can turn this off or not in chrome and really, it probably doesn't matter anyway since there are other ways to track you such as this one. But that unique id makes it very easy for google and its partners to track you and hence bug you with ads.