Today I learnt that Scheme (1975) is actually older than Common Lisp (1984)! I'd assumed that Scheme designs were a response to CL.
Many of the CL features were created earlier, in fairness. CL was standardising the feature set.
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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.)