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by adn37 5741 days ago
More on banking software: works from backoffice intranets / middleware (J2EE) to low latency trading (core J2SE).

The plus I see, is not having to worry too much about errors (wrt C++). Makes working with large codebases / multiple collaborators easier. Great IDEs too.

Still, coding in Java is quite boring (overdeclaration, lack of pointers/unchecked sections, ...).