"Sun, for instance, has created many important technologies in-house, including ...the Java language, popular with programmers." Something about that sentence

"Sun, for instance, has created many important technologies in-house, including ...the Java language, popular with programmers." Something about that sentence is disturbing, but I can't quite pin it down. Certainly Java is widely used and there are people who like it, but describing a programing language as generically "popular with programmers" is weird.