These days, programming languages and most of the basic tools are free. Back in the 1990s, we all had to buy our development tools, and I think that spurred us to be vastly more defensive about ...

The programming language Ada rose to 9th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index in July, unseating the similarly venerable Fortran.

The first stable version of Rust was released in May 2015. The programming language has established itself primarily due to its concepts for memory security.