Java's “idiot-proofness” (at least compared to C++). Java comes with 100-percent portable libraries, including (as doesC++) I/O, threads, and the like. Moreover, Java supports portable GUIsand more, ...

C++ precompiled headers are compiler- and platform-specific. And C++ requires a large amount of source to be shipped in order to compile against it. Java defers platform-specific stuff to the runtime.

C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language popularity index for the first time ever, dating back to 2001. Java slipped to a new low in the latest edition of the index.

But Java was designed to be fully object-oriented, unlike C++. C++ fuses together the language’s syntax for structured, generic and object-oriented programming, but with Java, every item is an ...

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 ...

However, there are exceptions. When a C++ program is compiled, it's optimized based on the architecture of the system on which it runs. For example, if a C++ program is targeted against an ARM-based ...