Sure there is a lot of legacy work but I'm not sure it's the "vast" majority - at least, not out of proportion with other older general purpose languages. It's

Sure there is a lot of legacy work but I'm not sure it's the "vast" majority - at least, not out of proportion with other older general purpose languages. It's still used in a lot of new embedded work. It's still the best option for a lot of HPC and numerics. Some of this work ends up being targeted mostly for inclusion in another language runtime, sure, but it's still new work.