It's an interesting time for native development with all these languages making some serious attempts to dethrone C++ when in comes to combining high/low level in one language.

I'm still using C++ myself until the dust settles a bit, but I've found that my C++(11) code is trending towards being less stateful and more functionl-ish.

It's cool to see things changing in this space after feeling like it would be old style C or C++ forever.