In the long run, I agree with you, where new projects are concerned. At the same time, we have these mountains of C/C++ around that aren't going to go anywhere

In the long run, I agree with you, where new projects are concerned. At the same time, we have these mountains of C/C++ around that aren't going to go anywhere anytime too soon. Remember the Y2K problem and how those programmers in the 60s and 70s thought that by the year 2000, surely their code would have been either fixed or rewritten. At most, C and C++ are "dying" in the same way COBOL is - for new projects, other languages might prevail, but there are still mountains of legacy code written in it that nobody dares touch...