"Do you realize that almost everything widely used today is implemented in C, C++ or ObjectiveC?"

Yeah, and we are plagued by the bugs and security problems made possible by those languages. Imagine how much more we could be doing if programmers were not spending hours trying to figure out where a dangling pointer was created.

Really, the popularity of C, C++, and related languages has little to do with the languages themselves. C became popular because of Unix, not because of its technical features, and Unix became popular because of its licensing. C++ became popular because of Windows, not because of its technical features; Windows became popular because of the Unix Wars and because of MS Office. If Unix had been written in Lisp or ML, we would be talking about how popular Lisp or ML are. For what it's worth, entire operating systems were written in Lisp at one time; their failure had nothing to do with their technical merits and everything to do with terrible marketing and bad predictions.

If you want to talk about how fantastic C or C++ is, try pointing to an overwhelming success story that could not have happened without the language. Altran Praxis has the lowest bug rate in the industry; they credit the SPARK programming language, which is well-suited to the formal verification techniques they rely on. The military planning system DART paid both its own development costs and several decades of research that led up to it; it was thrown together in a few weeks using Lisp. I have yet to hear that kind of success story from C++ programmers; the only thing I ever seem to hear about are squeezing a few extra clock cycles out.

If this were a popularity contest, we would still be hand-rolling assembly language. The same reasons that led programmers to use compiled languages apply to switching away from low-level languages like C and C++. Sure, people are still writing assembly language, but it is a niche. That is where C and C++ should be: a niche, mostly just for maintaining legacy code that is too expensive to rewrite in a better language.

Good trolling skills, I must admit. :)

So there are some anecdotal stuff nobody actually seen, but it will change the word anytime now.

Don't hold your breath: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...