As I can read here there are one major group here that hates bukkit and one smaller that is smart enough to take from this project what is good and make minecraft better to all people who want to host server.
I am in fact running successful server on bukkit. 40 people at once. Don't have any 30 minutes crash (High CPU usage - yes, but not much bigger that clean vanilla server). In matter of fact I have problem with crashes on this holy thing called mineserver. And don't get me wrong I think that minecraft will always be more focused around java that around c++ and there will be many more various plugins that are just needed to run bigger server. A server that just could not live without it.
The best thing that may happen to this c++ project that is awesome is that it in some way could replace minecraft_server.jar and could be used with other java language. This would make this project so various that every other project would need to think about it all the time. For now nobody knows even about it.
As much java is a crappy thing it is needed and it will be needed to run a server in the closest future (thinking about 3-5 months) before this project will develop everything all by himself.
Also... is build at
https://github.com/brownan/Minecraft-Overvieweris the newest one? Cause I installed it and seems to have some bugs that should be repaired from that what I can read here...