I think the changing demographics of developers counters this argument. I think it takes a special kind of person to grok C and C++. If offered C/C++ on the on

I think the changing demographics of developers counters this argument. I think it takes a special kind of person to grok C and C++. If offered C/C++ on the one hand and JavaScript/Python on the other, very few people in the world will choose C/C++. Back in tha day, when C and C++ were the only games in town (and programming wasn't as lucrative), the industry naturally filtered for these people. Today, it lets more people in than ever before. These new people, it can be reasonably argued, are not as smart as those select few from yesteryear. The fact that they're not exposed to the mind-scrambling vagaries of architecture differences, which means the barrier of entry and attrition rate are far lower, should pump that intuition, no?