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Java

Posted by Miika Vuorio
Miika Vuorio
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Could Photoshop, PowerPoint or Word type programs be created with Java?

I think that Photoshop and Word are created with C++, but could the same things be created with Java? So basically this question is about comparing Java to C++ and the functionality of these languages.

1 Answer

Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,175 Points

All I could find is couple of articles on the web: here is about popular famous Java apps:

http://javarevisited.blogspot.de/2014/12/where-does-java-used-in-real-world.html

Here is nice Stack discussion why Java can be better than C++:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2612434/what-are-some-prominent-real-world-applications-of-java

I like the best answer:

Quote from here:

Unless you're writing games, embedded device software, maintaining legacy software, or writing high performance parallel computation software (eg CUDA), you'll get much more mileage out of Java these days than C/C++. C# is actually more Java-derived than C-derived despite the name, in case you're thinking of that (many would argue that it's better than Java, myself included).