It was more the hype behind Java (to a lesser extent, earlier, Lisp) that made memory safety a particularly hot topic/dispute among language evangelists. Althou

It was more the hype behind Java (to a lesser extent, earlier, Lisp) that made memory safety a particularly hot topic/dispute among language evangelists. Although Rust* has made it still more common. *Also, though I now contradict myself because they preceded Java, the inspirations for Rust's more formal/statically-checked memory model: C++'s RAII and STL.