I love Lamire's blog posts and think he's brilliant, but I'd have to agree with the GP (though more gently) that this really does read like a list of "Things to Watch out for: My First 6 month of Java".
I suspect that weirdness has less to do with Lamire, but the weird expectations that it tries to "debunk".
Like no ones out here arguing that Java is some especially safe, super high validation language. Sure it's memory safety was a huge breath of fresh air compared to C/C++, but it's not in the same vein of reputation as an Eiffel or Ada or even Rust.
Perhaps the intent was seeing what crazy HN thread would be started :) My reading of the last paragraph was that there is no safe language since in the end it's always up to the programmer.
Well, I did have to debug a Rust program with valgrind/miri so it is not like safety is a singular axis (not shitting on Rust, I really like the language, but it is a low level language exposing low-level constructs thus low-level bugs can rear their ugly heads)
I suspect that weirdness has less to do with Lamire, but the weird expectations that it tries to "debunk".
Like no ones out here arguing that Java is some especially safe, super high validation language. Sure it's memory safety was a huge breath of fresh air compared to C/C++, but it's not in the same vein of reputation as an Eiffel or Ada or even Rust.