My personal opinion:
As you know I don't know much of programming but for I've seen C (ANSI 
C, C++, C# and al the variants) is the King Language, if it keeps 
evolving in its abstractions/implementations to cover more needs it will 
be there for ever or at least until a better language come along, if so, 
I'm sure will have to be based on C at least conceptually.

C I believe is a reference for the other languages, like the Grandfather 
of programming languages.

FWIW I believe C should have a kind of optimizer/distiller that gives 
the assembler-level optimized (speed and/or size) .exe image, for every 
hardware platform, so the programmer doesn't have to worry about 
low-level tricks and concentrate more in the program abstract idea and 
its implementation. I think the compiler gives optimizations only by 
changing the order of the statements because it's partially optimized 
according to certain statement criteria it recognizes but not fully 
optimized for the assembly language level.

Cheers.

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