Jace—a free, open source toolkit—lets you easily write JNI (Java Native Interface) code. This article analyzes in detail the JNI API's problems and how Jace solves them.

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 ...

When compared with Java, C++ builds are slow and complicated. Developers have noted that a full build in C++ might take up to 20 hours, while the same build might take only seven minutes in Java.

Java slipped to a new low in the latest edition of the index. The December 2002 Tiobe Programming Community Index has C++, ranked third, surpassing Java, ranked fourth.

Java seems to be on the losing side, says Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE Software. In April 2020, Java gave up its No. 1 spot to C o on the TIOBE index. Later, in 2021, Python became unstoppable and ...

For Java, the primary tool in this domain is FindBugs (findbugs.sourceforge.net). This is a free, open-source tool that is very easy to use either standalone or integrated with other tools.

While these remain changed year-on-year, December 2021’s third place prize to Java has been challenged in the latest round of figures, as it dropped in ratings by 1.7% to fourth place.