I keep thinking that the Next Big Language will be a thing of re-evolution, e.g. someone going back to C and retracing steps of C++ but in a more sensible way.

Also, on a tangential note -- the garbage collection is a huge deal if an adoption of the NBL among C/++ programmers is considered. The only way is to have the garbage collection optional. Similarly to how D has it, but much much simpler. Something like adding new_gc operator (or a malloc_gc function) and to have two kinds of memory blocks - manually managed and garbage collected...

Anyway, it's just a thought from an old fart camp :)