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"C++ ... is in slow decline anyway." Reference needed. It is very much alive for certain types of software, e.g. video games.

• dagw 14y ago
  Decline doesn't meaning dying. While there is a large amount of software that will continue to be written in C++ for years to come, there is also a large class of software that 10 years ago would have automatically been written in C++, but today is just as likely to be written in something CLR or JVM based, or even a dynamic language like python/ruby/javascript. I also wouldn't be surprised to see languages like Go or Haskell continue making inroads into areas that have traditionally been the domain of C++. And even in video games C++ is being used in fewer parts of the codebase as more and more code is being shifted to embedded scripting languages like lua.