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It does feel that there has been a recent boom in new compiled languages (languages that compile to native code, I mean, instead of whatever virtual machine people currently think is hot). One or more of these might well wind up displacing C in the future. C is an elegant language but it suffers from not being able to learn from the lessons of the last 40 years.

Fortran is still in use after ~60 years, but it isn't really being used for new applications, which seesm to be what you're asking. It seems safe to assume that someday C will follow suit.