You could make the same argument about most languages - programmers have more viable languages to choose from than they did just 10 years ago. But even on this

You could make the same argument about most languages - programmers have more viable languages to choose from than they did just 10 years ago. But even on this count, C's share of the 'market' is increasing or stable, and not decreasing. My point is you can't talk about decreasing C usage without acknowledging that a huge chunk, probably a majority, of C code is for embedded applications. That segment is increasing, not decreasing. And C is used on the lion share of embedded apps, possibly upwards of 90%.