What do other languages offer when it comes to infrastructure technology that could indicate its advantage over C in the future?

What do other languages offer when it comes to infrastructure technology
that could indicate its advantage over C in the future?

I have been going through interview questions and I saw one which made me
stop and think for a while. It starts with a quote and asks about your
interpretation and whether you agree or not.
"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace." Dennis Ritchie
From a bit of background reading you can find that he was the mastermind
behind C language as well as the UNIX OS. At the time it was a phenomenal
improvement and at the forefront of cutting edge techniques. I feel that
C++ and Java are becoming increasingly popular languages, but C will
always be an important language.
What do other languages offer when it comes to infrastructure technology
that could indicate its advantage over C in the future. On a side note,
does anybody know which year this quote was made? I just want the opinions
of people who use these languages a lot, I myself use python language and
would love to learn a bit more about the framework around C and it's
importance firsthand.