C will go away alongside modern hardware design "standards." Until that happens someone will always find a use for talking as directly as possible to the hardwa

C will go away alongside modern hardware design "standards." Until that happens someone will always find a use for talking as directly as possible to the hardware (which, of course, doesn't care about types at all). Whether that'll take a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten I don't know. Of course it's possible to write a lot of things in, say, Python, then rewrite the slow bits in C. The number of programs that absolutely must be written close to the metal is pretty small in absolute terms.