I've never had a choice of a software language to program with since about 1990. At that time, my choices were limited to what the company had available which was GW BASIC, Turbo Pascal, and Turbo C. I chose Turbo Pascal, which was awesome for my needs. (IBM PC running DOS port I/O.)

I recently read someone's foray into memory safe languages where they were touting Ada and Oberon over Rust. I found it interesting that these older languages still had usefulness.