Vinyl records outlasted CDs. Some technologies, even if they are popular today, die a death of slow attrition. There may be demand, but it's niche (like COBOL

Vinyl records outlasted CDs. Some technologies, even if they are popular today, die a death of slow attrition. There may be demand, but it's niche (like COBOL today). C (and C++) will remain popular for a longer time for a number of reasons; after all, under the hood NodeJS is a C program right? Because it's the most useful portable macro assembler anybody has invented, and it forms the basis of nearly every higher-level system.