[pnako]

People have been saying that for 50 years, though.

C++ covers the whole spectrum from C-like, low-level programming to high-level, Python-like programming; which is why it dominates programming competitions, and manages to beat Haskell and OCaml at their own game in the ICFP. I think it's quite possible that C++ will evolve enough that it won't need being replaced at all. With the last and upcoming standards, C++ has gotten some inspiration from Python; it looks like it might also copy a few good ideas from Rust going forward.

Many historical criticisms of C++ have never been valid ("it's not elegant"), and the valid ones are being addressed: safer constructs, better tooling, improving support for modularization, better compile times, etc.