Easier?

Most of the language currently in use have been around for at least 30 years (for example C, C++, Python, Lua; Java and PHP are at 29). Of all the languages that were in use in the late 80s and early 90s the only somewhat surprising demise is Pascal, which is probably due to the disappearance of its two main proponents (Borland and pre-NeXT Apple).

Perl is probably the least healthy of the various languages in use today. Maybe in 20 years people will treat C like they treat COBOL or Fortran, but the lesson of COBOL and Fortran is exactly that C and C++ *will* be around in 10 or 20 years just for the sheer amount of code that's written using those languages. Others like Rust or Go or Ruby maybe not have the same amount of code to protect them, but of the three I would bet on Rust the most because it's pretty much the only language to provide important advantages in the field occupied by C/C++.