>I wouldn't be surprised if C++ was in very gradual but terminal decline. I am quite sceptical that this will ever happen. C and C++ are fated to live together

>I wouldn't be surprised if C++ was in very gradual but terminal decline. I am quite sceptical that this will ever happen. C and C++ are fated to live together and forever :-) The "accidental" rise of Web Applications gave a fillip to other languages simply because most of the early programmers were non-CS people. But once these apps hit their limits at scale they had no other option but to fallback to C++. So most often you only have a shim/skeleton app written in some other language whereas the libraries/guts are all written in C++.