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.

It's a commonly asked question in a world where every software developer wants to get the most out of every clock cycle their programs consume. It was also a topic at a Java "Birds of a Feather" ...

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Java ranked fourth in the December 2022 Tiobe index of programming language popularity, the lowest Java has ranked in the history of the index. C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language ...

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 ...

JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript and C# are the most widely used programming languages in GitHub projects, according to GitHub's 2022 Octoverse report. The list of top programming languages on ...

C and Java remain the most popular languages in the Tiobe community index, but Python is stalking them and will likely take top spot in the future. According to Tiobe's July 2021 index, the three most ...