The author makes it sound as if there have been no material changes to programming languages recently but unless you've been hiding under a rock you will know t

The author makes it sound as if there have been no material changes to programming languages recently but unless you've been hiding under a rock you will know that this is not true. He compares Python to C. Come on, please. It would have been more relevant to speak about the LLVM project and how that enables architects to build more expressive languages which can still make use of 30 years of optimization wisdom (most of which was built when CPU's were much slower) What about mentioning languages like Rust which are designed for high concurrency and zero overhead which let developers write software with the safety of python but the performance of C. What about mentioning that some old languages, like c++, have evolved though new language features AND guidelines into much more effective languages to guide us into the future of concurrent programming (the easiest way to enjoy the speedups of yesteryear)