Performance continues to improve with new versions of the JVM and compilers. It is also faster if you know how to code for better performance, the C++ solution to a problem is not necessarily appropriate in Java. Additionally, there are plenty of Java native code compilers.

>It's also slow, too slow.
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>>>Java's better?
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>>Much better. Java is fun.
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>>>>>What's wrong with C++?
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>>>>As someone else has already pointed out: Life it too short to code in C++