Comment by maxbond

Totally true. Similarly I think a C revival is more likely than people might think because of Fil-C, improvements to the language standard, and maybe hardware improvements like CHERI. Eg, maybe there will be a new generation of Fil-C like compilers, maybe C will get a lot easier, and maybe that will cause C to displace Python as the preffered pedagogical "first language" (which would really be reprising it's role). Not because it's easier than Python but because it's easy enough and we start emphasizing low-level optimization more because AI is eating all of our compute. Stranger things have happened.