The PHP 1.0 announcement has aged pretty well! Rasmus focuses on simplicity, how little you need to get started, and the things you can build.
This convenience and pragmatism has been a major factor in PHP's success.
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Rust and RISC-V both feel like they've reached critical mass and I'd guess that they'll be used more in 5 years than they are today.
What other technologies fit this description?
Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:
LLMs have been really helpful for me porting some JS projects to TS.
Since the types are erased and annotations are optional, I can go gradually and safely with more minimal human oversight.
(I'm not sure if it'll significantly help robustness, but it's lovely for navigation.)