I hear that not all development is web development. In fact, those in the know know that even very popular well-known companies that make their profits from web applications heavily leverage C, C++, and tools (and languages) that are themselves built with C and/or C++ or run in embedded or VM processes that are themselves built with C and/or C++.

I find it amusing that the new languages being heavily touted in the non-functional space (that would be Go, D and Rust) are all using C and C++ as their targets for replacement. Everybody loves to hate C and C++, yet the tech world literally runs on them, and will for the foreseeable future.

This isn't to say there isn't anything better, or that they'll never be replaced.

You also misspelled "affront."