You're right. What this article fails to anticipate is that, "Hacker's Radar", won't be what matters. It takes great pains to make clear that it's not about Java, but hacker radar and how that leads him to reject things like Java. Well, in the era we live in now, hacker radar has taken a back seat, to bean counters, pitchmen, and CEO's blabbing endlessly on Twitter, and while all of them claim to be Tech-CEO's and pitchmen, etc... The truth is once those people take over, the tech will never be their priority, with bean counters it's always about the beans.