Now, that I am at my #1 favorite feature, I am having a tough time deciding between these two - uniform initialization syntax or rvalue references, but I am going to have to go with initialization syntax this time.

Uniform initialization syntax, at first, doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it solves something that has irritated me personally forever in C++, initializing STL containers.  So, this new feature accomplishes two things, makes all initialization syntax uniform with a new standardized brace notation and provides a clean mechanism for initializing STL containers. One other nice part of this feature is the capability to now initialize class member variables in the definition.

Regarding, STL containers, prior to C++11, a developer would need to load data into a container by iterating through the container and using push_back or other equivalent functions to insert data. But now, I just initialize a std::vector using the uniform brace syntax, such as:

vector<string> strings = { "first_string", "second_string", "third_string"};

Or for instance, a std::map:

std::map<std::string, int> states_and_electoral_votes = { {"California", 55}, {"New York", 29}};<