Certainly it will be considered if your project has certain kinds of requirements other languages fails to cover (no vm, highest performance, no gc, ...). Those

Certainly it will be considered if your project has certain kinds of requirements other languages fails to cover (no vm, highest performance, no gc, ...). Those are very relevant to a lot of projects. C++ is not a legacy language, it's sometimes (with C) the only viable language in some sets of conditions.