Comment by timbit42

If by C, you mean, descendants of C, I agree with you. If you mean C itself will survive, I strongly disagree.

I think with the recent focus on safety in languages, Rust and Ada, especially SPARK, will have better futures than C and C++. I think business is going to turn against C[++] for new projects, and there will be a push to rewrite C[++] code in safe languages, especially for operating systems, networking, and security code , making C[++] the next COBOL.

Since safety isn't something you can simply bolt onto a language, many other safe languages will crop up to replace the rest of the unsafe languages.