I agree that a new language has a much better chance of survival if it's part of a new platform. And it's interesting to think about what exactly a "platform" i

I agree that a new language has a much better chance of survival if it's part of a new platform. And it's interesting to think about what exactly a "platform" is in this context: an OS, a form factor, a VM, a scriptable tool, a technology stack, a service, a sandbox, a consumer app, a game, new users, a new industry, something that nobody's thought of. But C++ suggests another path to language survival: present it as an "easy-to-learn" (it started that way) superset of an existing language that addresses a weakness. It's C! With classes!