[ezy]

Yes.

This is borne out, IMHO, by the fact that even though everyone supposedly "knows" it's broken and how to fix it, it is by far still the most popular choice when you need very high performance with reasonable abstraction power in industry. It's been around for decades, and there's nothing worthwhile to replace it that fits in the particular domain it fits into.

I'm not advocating here -- I suspect what will happen is that as the low-level architecture of computers change, something may take it's place that maps better, but for now, that statement is no lie.