That was but one of the mentions in the article. Take it away and it still is true; many of us programmers seem to be attracted to new and shiny things. No, they don't have to be super-complicated, ground-breaking languages that make you feel like a guitarist who has lost his left arm and now needs to learn how to play using only his right arm. New things are still shiny, even if there are already things that are kind of like them already; those other things have just lost their twinkle with age. If anything, there seems to be many programmers who complain about how new trends are just reinventing 10-20 year old wheels or whatever, that trends are cyclic, and so on.