>however I don't see any of the possible replacements achieve a similar position in my lifetime Agreed. I've been doing C/C++ code for decades, and still do it

>however I don't see any of the possible replacements achieve a similar position in my lifetime Agreed. I've been doing C/C++ code for decades, and still do it, but routinely work on other languages. For many problems the best solution is still C/C++, but it makes security for such code significantly more trouble.