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.

In what cases is Java faster, if at all, than C++? This question was originally answered on Quora by Cameron Purdy.

Java ranked fourth in the December 2022 Tiobe index of programming language popularity, the lowest Java has ranked in the history of the index.

If you're a developer writing code in .NET, C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP or Python, new research highlights the main security vulnerabilities you need to watch out for. Static code analysis security ...

It's a fair question to ask: Is Java slow? If you focus solely on performance time and resource consumption, it lags behind C++, but overall Java is still quite fast.

Java is multiplatform. It runs on an abstraction called the virtual machine (VM). The VM is code written in C, which allows the same Java code to run on Windows, Linux, Solaris, or even a cell ...

The forthcoming Minecraft: Education Edition, written in C++, looks faster and smoother than the old Java version, but won't be compatible with all the old mods. If Microsoft mis-handles the ...

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.

Are programmers in C/C++ more preferred at Google than programmers in Java? This question was originally answered on Quora by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

Contrary to Android, applications are written in C/C++ instead of Java, and the UI is based on GTK+. The LiMo platform provides applications with all the services that one would expect from a mobile ...