Good C and C++ programmers understand how computers work. We will always need programmers who understand how computers work. I believe a cleaner language will

Good C and C++ programmers understand how computers work. We will always need programmers who understand how computers work. I believe a cleaner language will replace C and C++ for new projects some day, but it will still present the same fundamental environment to the programmer: manual memory management, raw OS threading, ability to bit bash and do unsafe stuff if you need to. This language will not radically change the C/C++ programming model. Rather, it will add semantic power to reason about safeness, purity, concurrency, memory layout, etc. as part of the language. (I think Rust might be this language.) IMO, active C/C++ programmers should be learning more about stuff like OOO and superscalar CPU architectures, caches, NUMA, hardware atomic operations, drivers, etc. I think "C/C++ programmer" really means "close to the metal programmer working on a mainstream project," and that category will remain strong through language changes. On the other hand, if you have never found the need to learn anything from that list of topics, you are probably using C/C++ in a domain where it is ripe for replacement.