[General] Java vs C++

And I too agree with FragFrog. I own numerous books as a result of my schooling, and the gap between Java and C++ grows closer with time. I admit as an industry we are still using C++, but Java is getting better.

If you really want to go there writing a program to be so extremely fast, why not just use Assembler instead? Java has its strong and weak points, as does C and Assembler.

But you do have valid points about Java's complete overkill.

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Originally Posted by jMerliN

Eclipse actually starts far slower than VS. That's not even a competition, lol.

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VS will take about 3 seconds to load for me (if my cpu is not under stress because of the background programs) - Eclipse will take me about 10 seconds to start up (like with VS, it will start slower if my cpu is stressed by background programs). So no, there is definitely no competition here.

+ you can't use GPGPU in java hah!

Java multiple platform? Depends on the interpreter. I've heard some platforms have a horrible interpreter, and if you have an unpopular platform, don't recon Java can be run there. Instead, those platforms almost always support C and often C++ runtime libraries.

Also, I generally have bad experience with Java apps...OpenOffice, sometimes it just crashes and it's overall not a lightning fast application...but that might be the program, not the runtime libraries / language of course.