[kaba0]

C never had the insane hype that Java once did - at the height of its popularity it had an insane amount of mindshare, and probably no language will achieve such ever again. It was literally the only PL that was/is known by laymen.

If anything, the field will fragment a bit more, but java likely never gonna die — cobol and fortran often run in VMs due to the hardware not being as long-lived as them, due to the JVM model, java is not even weak to that.