So it's possible my airplane might fall out of the sky because there is not enough memory because not enough time was devoted to garbage collection? That doesn't sound like a great solution. Not to say that C is necessarily the ideal solution. The main reason the author hasn't seen competitors to C is because the author didn't look for one. Vala is decent and there are many others, they're just not sufficiently better than C to result in people switching.
Because, clever wordplay aside, "There is/isn't a bubble in technology" articles generally attract readers despite the fact they rarely contain substance. There was nothing in that article I didn't already know / have banged over my head by every other fluffy tech blog that exists today.
I'm an OCaml fan as well and having written in a number of languages I can say that complexity in and of itself is probably not the enemy. I think the problem is more related to modularity. For instance I don't think it is the best policy to make a skip list implementation as simple as possible because it is self contained and will likely be used by many of my programs in the future. Complexity only becomes a problem when it is no longer possible for a developer to fit all the pieces of the program in her mind at once. Abstraction and modularity can generally help with this.
I'm inclined to agree, currently I have ssh setup on my home machine and use dyndns which is free and pretty simple. Setting up a server would be equally simple for the technically inclined.
It is funny that this recruiter guy "reserves" 10 for the inventor of the programming language. If I wrote the English dictionary and grammar system, would you assume I could write like Shakespeare?