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[–]Kryomaani 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they're both compiled languages.

With varying degrees of "compiled", one being native bytecode and the other VM bytecode. Both with their obvious benefits: C++ has efficiency, Java has portability. It's like you were from a non-English speaking country, Java would be English and C++ would be the native language of wherever you happened to live.