Gosling's vision for Java included automatic memory management (garbage collection), which reduces errors and security vulnerabilities common in C++'s manual memory management. He also suggested ...

Java does have one good idea: automatic memory management, also called "garbage collection," which actually eliminates one of the most common causes of program crashes in the world of C and C++.

Both the original version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Bedrock Edition were written in, you guessed it, C++, allowing for implementations and features that Java couldn't always achieve.

It’s taking some time for them to adapt their knowledge of C++, C, or Java to C#. They are productive within a month or two, and fully adjusted in less than a year.

The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) at the White House in the United States recommends that developers migrate from programming languages such as C++ and C to memory-safe programming ...

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.