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 ...

Memory allocation issues are only a subset of the problems common to C/C++ that cause potential bugs and vulnerabilities, but they are a large subset and are very annoying to track down and fix.

C++ versus Java. Although I've been a C++ professional for 18 years, I recently facedthe task of leading a team that had to build a large J2EE Web 2.0application. Of course, I've always been open ...

Making C++ safe. Memory safe languages do exist and include Rust, Go, Java, Swift, and Python. C++ is under particular scrutiny because of the amount of critical code that has been written in it.

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

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or ...

Feb 29, 2024 11:03:00 White House recommends developers move from C++ and C to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust and Java. The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) at the ...