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 ...

Upstart languages are creeping closer to the lead in the monthly Tiobe popularity index as software is adopted by more and more domains Keep on moving over, Java and C. Other languages are closing the ...

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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 ...

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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.

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 ...