I'm not saying a language must die because its old. Modern C++ is not bad - but you have to restrict your development into the "good" subset, and avoid the bad stuff from before. IE, use references and smart pointers rather than news and deletes.

With C, there is no alternative. It is still malloc and free, still buffer overflows and integer overflows galore, and the C language standards group is not moving to make the kinds of radical changes to modernize it the C++ one is.