Java is not slow. It powers many important and insanely fast web services and has one of the best just in time compilers in the world. Java code can be faster than C code due to better optimisations done by a JIT compiler.
I hate it, but it's not slow.
In the latest Tiobe index (of course you'll tell me that it's not an accurate representation of demographics)
It's not. There are ton more languages who still have heavy use in business, military or academics. Specifically Fortran, Cobol, Ada, Erlang,
Fortran is still used for high-performance computing, it is faster than C due to not having to deal with pointer aliasing.
Cobol still runs tons of business applications.
Ada is used for astronautic and aeronautic applications, and generally other systems where high reliablity is required.
Erlang is used for telephony networks and in general distributed networks.
Here's a list: Fortran, Cobol, Ada, Erlang, BASIC, Pascal, Haskell, Smalltalk, Lisp (especially Common Lisp and Scheme)
Fortran is still used for high-performance computing, it is faster than C due to not having to deal with pointer aliasing.
Cobol still runs tons of business applications.
Ada is used for astronautic and aeronautic applications, and generally other systems where high reliablity is required.
Erlang is used for telephony networks and in general distributed networks.
BASIC was really popular with Windows people I heard.
Pascal was popular for teaching but got into the real world as well. The Delphi dialect was quite popular in the Windows camp I heard.
Do you need more examples?
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God no, why in hell would you buy a Samsung TV?
If you start with Java, you surely need to have static typing too, and cannot defer this to a later C++ part.
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Java is not slow. It powers many important and insanely fast web services and has one of the best just in time compilers in the world. Java code can be faster than C code due to better optimisations done by a JIT compiler. I hate it, but it's not slow.
PHP is a huge piece of crap.
Wesley Crusher was the best character ever seen on television.
In the latest Tiobe index (of course you'll tell me that it's not an accurate representation of demographics)
It's not. There are ton more languages who still have heavy use in business, military or academics. Specifically Fortran, Cobol, Ada, Erlang, Fortran is still used for high-performance computing, it is faster than C due to not having to deal with pointer aliasing. Cobol still runs tons of business applications. Ada is used for astronautic and aeronautic applications, and generally other systems where high reliablity is required. Erlang is used for telephony networks and in general distributed networks.
Here's a list: Fortran, Cobol, Ada, Erlang, BASIC, Pascal, Haskell, Smalltalk, Lisp (especially Common Lisp and Scheme) Fortran is still used for high-performance computing, it is faster than C due to not having to deal with pointer aliasing. Cobol still runs tons of business applications. Ada is used for astronautic and aeronautic applications, and generally other systems where high reliablity is required. Erlang is used for telephony networks and in general distributed networks. BASIC was really popular with Windows people I heard. Pascal was popular for teaching but got into the real world as well. The Delphi dialect was quite popular in the Windows camp I heard. Do you need more examples?