C++ is the new C in the sense that it’s the language everything else is built on and I expect it will be even more difficult to displace than C. For instance, the complexity of C++ makes it next to impossible to incrementally rewrite in another language, simply writing a production quality C++ implementation is a gargantuan investment so a superset language is questionable, and the C++ community is committed to evolving and improving their language whereas C has largely ossified. Perhaps C will outlive everyone reading this thread, but C++ will outlive C.