Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x slower.

This summer, Microsoft will release a beta of Minecraft: Education Edition written in C++ rather than Java, which looks like removing the performance problems associated with running the current ...

For the first time since 2001, when TIOBE Software began publishing the results of its monthly search for the languages in which the most lines of code were written, Java and C++ are not occupying one ...

Java seems to be on the losing side, says Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE Software. In April 2020, Java gave up its No. 1 spot to C o on the TIOBE index. Later, in 2021, Python became unstoppable and ...

JetBrains’ Developer Ecosystem 2023 report shows where C++ developers stand on C++ language versions, IDEs, package managers, build tools, code analysis tools, and AI-assisted development. Let’s dive ...

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New figures have claimed C++ is among the top three most popular programming languages used by developers today. The TIOBE Index, which promises to check more than one billion lines of code every day ...