> Far better languages have already been proven out
For what they do, C and C++ don't really have serious challengers yet, not that there aren't some promising contenders.
For what they do, C and C++ don't really have serious challengers yet, not that there aren't some promising contenders.
Only if you define "what they do" in a way that makes that a trivial tautology (e.g., as "things for which C and C++ don;t really have serious challengers"). Over time, a lot of serious challengers have arisen and competed with (and even displaced) C and C++ in areas where those languages have been widely used. There may still be areas where they don't have serious competition, but those areas keep getting smaller.
Obj-C to Swift won't happen overnight at Apple either, but it is much more likely to happen because they've been gradually working towards it for years now with LLVM and such.