The whole article is a little spurious. None of the languages mentioned (C, C++, D, Go, Rust) target exactly the same space (even though they all overlap). Go

The whole article is a little spurious. None of the languages mentioned (C, C++, D, Go, Rust) target exactly the same space (even though they all overlap). Go and Rust in particular have been designed with very specific clients in mind (replacing Google's use of Python for server-side work and safety-paranoid multi-threading for Mozilla's Servo, respectively). Rust is the only new language mentioned that resembles C in its capabilities but then again: C++ resembles C in (theoretical) capabilities but never de-throned C (mostly because when you use C++ like C, you might as well use C).