Lots of languages are fashionable today, but most of them don't overlap with the use cases that are traditionally handled by C++. Even so, it fares pretty good

Lots of languages are fashionable today, but most of them don't overlap with the use cases that are traditionally handled by C++. Even so, it fares pretty good. What it lacks in expressive power it makes up in speed, libraries and industry support. C# is in my opinion a realistic C++ alternative or complement.