Idling in gear

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Most of my experience with cars is with automatics: every rental car I drove in the US, as well as some of my own cars like the police car. Still, I have now driven enough manuals that I am wondering about an apparent pattern. My impression of older cars is that if one were to leave the pedals alone in first gear then the car might jerk forward somewhat but would soon stall. However, with cars from the past decade or so, it seems like they are more inclined to actually keep on moving forward, almost like an automatic. I wonder if this is a real change: if idle speed tends to be set higher, or if this is a feature of fuel injection, or what.