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How programming languages have evolved
Thoughtworks Technology Radar has been tracking changes in the tech landscape for a decade.
Here, we look back at some of the most notable blips that have appeared in the Tools quadrants — where many things were called out long before they hit the mainstream.
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ASP.NET MVC | Firefox
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Distributed version control | Subversion | Git | Mercurial | Puppet
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Next-generation test tools| Cross mobile platforms| GitHub |NoSQL
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ESB
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Infrastructure as code | Caching reverse proxies
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Splunk| New Relic beyond Rails
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Vagrant| Gradle| Selenium 2 testing of mobile websites |Sonar
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Code in configuration
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AppCode | Embedded servlet containers | Immutable servers
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Apache Pig| D3 | Rake for Java & .NET | JavaScript tooling | Log aggregation & indexing
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Zipkin
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Maven
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Dependency management for JavaScript
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Pact & Pacto| Moco | Gulp | GoCD |Flyway | SnapCI | Chaos Monkey | Ansible
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Cloud-init | Appium | Mountebank | Spark | Swagger
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Ant
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Boot2docker| Gitlab | Postman | IndexedDB
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Terraform| Apache Kafka| Prometheus |Security Monkey | Gauge | Let's Encrypt | Visual Studio Code
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Babel | Grafana
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Talisman| Zipkin |Webpack | OWASP Dependency-Check
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HashiCorp Vault
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Jenkins as a deployment pipeline
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Airflow| Buildkite |Headless Chrome for front-end test | Serverless Framework
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spaCy | Yarn | Cypress | Jupyter
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Appium Test Distribution| Helm | git-secrets | LocalStack |Prettier| UI dev environments | Visual Studio Live Share
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ArchUnit | Scout2 | Stanford CoreNLP | TestCafe
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Commitizen
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Elasticsearch LTR| Yocto Project
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Detekt | Kubernetes Operators | Terratest | asdf-vm | Open Policy Agent (OPA) | What-If Tool
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Dependency management for JavaScript
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DVC| Experiment tracking tools for machine learning | kind
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AsyncAPI | Gitpod |tfsec
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