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 ...

Google has open sourced J2ObjC, a transpiler converting Java source code to Objective-C/C++ source code for the iOS platform.

I was a Java programmer from the way-back, 1.0 days in the nineties. In other words, I’m exactly the kind of guy who’s likely to sigh heavily if the phrase “low code” is uttered.

This effectively turns Java from a Just In Time compiled language to a normally compiled language, like C. He wrote this for the 6502/6510, the MSP430, and a Z80.

The software maker delivers the second beta of the Java Language Conversion Assistant, its tool to help Java developers move to Microsoft's C# language.