I tried it out and was able to put together a decent libevent server in c++ with smart pointers, etc, and a timer which prints out connection stats every 30s. It worked remarkably well.

I'm trying not to look at it as a potential career-ending event, but rather as another tool in my tool belt. I've been in the industry for 25 years now, and this is way more of an advancement than things like IntelliSense ever was.