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As experts, where do you see C going? In particular, given the many languages now out there built on decades of learnings from C, where will C have unique strengths? What projects starting today and hoping to run for 20 years should definitely pick C?

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I don't really see C going anywhere. It's not going away, and it's not going to evolve into Java. It's going to remain especially useful for memory constrained and performance critical applications such as IoT and embedded.

That sounds reasonable, but the resource-constrained space seems to me to be an ever-shrinking share of the field. So is it fair to say you see C becoming a specialist niche language going forward?

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