Are Java and C++ slipping in popularity? One language index says they are, although both skill sets still are in demand for developer jobs. The Tiobe Index this month has both languages plunging to ...

Python leads. C holds #2; C++ and Java dip as C# nears Java. Lower ranks shuffle — Perl returns, SQL at #10, and Go drops ...

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If you didn’t know better, you might believe that Sun Microsystems had designed the JNI (Java Native Interface) API with the goal of discouraging Java developers ...

Java has not become as pervasive as the original hype suggested, but it is a popular language, used a lot for in-house and server-side development and other applications. Java has less mind-share in ...

What can I do with Java and C++ that I can't do with JavaScript? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.

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 slower.

For the first time since 2001, when TIOBE Software began publishing the results of its monthly search for the languages in which the most lines of code were written, Java and C++ are not occupying one ...

Last week TIOBE released its monthly ranking of computer programming languages for September 2014 under a headline which might keep some developers up at night, “Java and C++ at all time low.” Their ...