I think this is probably for the best. Chromium has weird packaging quirks that make it awkward at best to keep it up to date. Better to just give people a good upstream option than pretend that Debians version (which is quite a bit behind) is worth it
I've been programming Java for about 10 years professionally. I think most of it stems from the fact that JavaDev work is nothing really groundbreaking - it's mostly work for established companies. No startup is building their new exciting app in Java. That makes Java work good money, but a hard slog to get motivation in
Interesting Article! Those download links in particular look
. Would have been good to have some more analysis on the more obscure links there though...