> I’m not sure were you got this perception that it’s dead. > C++ remains the only game in town in many domains.

Yeah but not because people like the language but because there is no alternative.

At work almost every one of us devs doesn't enjoy working with C++ but since many dependencies in the embedded space are written in C++ you don't have much of a saying which language you choose. For example, Qt supports basically only C++.

Rust is the only mature contender in that space currently.