The line "Java itself will diminish..." did feel a little Middle-Earth to me. This is not so much a criticism, but I'm not entirely sure what this article is t

The line "Java itself will diminish..." did feel a little Middle-Earth to me. This is not so much a criticism, but I'm not entirely sure what this article is trying to say. He seems to be saying that Java and C/++ were really a springboard into a new way of looking at problems in computing. I think the problem I have with this is (1) I don't think we really know what that "new" thing is yet, so it's hard to really judge the legacy of Java/C++ -- and (2) a lot of these emergent languages have been around a long time... So perhaps it misses the factors that have somehow turned the tables. Perhaps the issue with Java isn't the way it handles primitives, but something else more fundamental altogether.