I'm not sure how low level your thinking. But golang is somewhat notable here. It's gaining a lot of traction in the cloud space mainly thanks to Docker. A nice

I'm not sure how low level your thinking. But golang is somewhat notable here. It's gaining a lot of traction in the cloud space mainly thanks to Docker. A nice write up here: http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/03/18/go-the-emerging-language-of-cloud-infrastructure/ http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/03/18/go-the-emerging-lang... It's probably not an alternative to C/C++ and perhaps what it's used for is not systems programming in a strict way. But most software today is related to the cloud in one way or another. And Golang is picking up traction here that might otherwise have gone to these other languages you all mentioned.