As long as we're running our software on a Von Neumann machine, there will be a need for a language which is just a thin layer on top of it. Considering we alre

As long as we're running our software on a Von Neumann machine, there will be a need for a language which is just a thin layer on top of it. Considering we already have one, it seems hard to believe that it will go away without a fundamental change in how computers work. (Which is not to say we won't have better languages - just that we will always have the bare-metal one as well)