@lonelyowl13 @p @ins0mniak @vic Plan9 C :DDD:

I'd more put Rust as a C++ successor, but well most people can't do the difference between C and C++ while for me it's kind of like not doing the difference between Unix Shell and Perl.

And well I don't think "successor" really makes sense in (programming) languages.
Like is Ruby a successor to Perl? Depends on the person/projects really, I guess do things the weird way so Perl ended up being a successor to Python3 due to me wanting a more boring language.

Meaning you could pick Fortran as a C successor.
But it could be D, or Zig, or Hare, or Forth, or Go, …