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A comment on Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is written in C++. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by tomcam on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @03:42PM (#10975883)
Stunning that Bill Joy ever thought interpreted Java could be faster than C++. I thought he knew more than that...
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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by rch on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:15PM (#10976136)
He may have simply overestimated the availability of Bill-Joy-like programmers.
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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by tomcam on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @08:21PM (#10977564)
Kindly explain the downvotes? I have nothing against Java. But C++ has direct control over memory and/or memory allocators, the option of allocating things on the stack, no garbage collection, etc.
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