Great news! Longed for. I also see that other competitors (Codacy, LGTM etc.) chose this direction as their primary means of analysis (which has its pros and cons). I’m happy Sonar is going to be balanced (cloud vs on-premises) product.
My only concern is this statement:
Non supported languages (Java, C#, VB.NET, C/C++, ObjectiveC) will not be analyzed at all.
which wasn’t placed under Current limitations/caveats section (deliberately?)
There is a thread for this already: No Java with AutoScan! Planned? - #2 by benoit so I put it here as a reference.