Comment by Jach

There are a lot of contenders. My own unsorted list is Nim, Rust, C++20xx, D, Objective C, Pony, Zig, Crystal, Red, and maybe a form of Lisp (why not Common Lisp). Even more unlikely a maybe and only for the C/C++ trenches of embedded systems, some form of Forth. If Jai ever ships I might consider adding it (at least as a contender to the C/C++ trenches of games and game engines), but it's absurd to think it will have any impact when it can't even be used by anyone other than jblow yet. Even if it ships, I would bet its highest anywhere-realistic impact (which is still damn high) would be to become the PHP of game programming. The mythical C/C++ replacement that everyone will choose when they previously would have chosen C or C++, causing C/C++ to die like COBOL? Much less likely.