Interesting question, but ultimately it's still hard to say . The story on power consumption of managed/VM language is still not clear. Most of the computation

Interesting question, but ultimately it's still hard to say . The story on power consumption of managed/VM language is still not clear. Most of the computation in the world are now happening in mobile/IoT devices and cloud/data centers; Both environment put a strong constraint on power consumption and therefore on efficiency. There is already a huge amount (and growing ) of native code running in the cloud. As our computational requirement increase (and unless we have a break through in computation efficiency) people might want to revisit the lost implied by managed environment. The other side of the coin is that managed env. are popular because they usually bring safety, ease of programming and productivity. Modern C++,rust and D are showing that a lot of those attributes can be had with native languages too.