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there are lots of non-trivial applications that aren't CPU bound or don't need to be performant anyway. For instance, anything that runs on a server and/or deals with a database.
Most software that deals with database are boring and trivial enterprise software.
Also Java's performance is due to the fact that it is its own virtual machine.
No, it's because the GC is slow and the GC encourages programmers to code badly without understanding what affects to the performance. So there are at least two reasons why GC makes Java slow.
But shared references are the way. Good designs use them constantly.
Wtf? Why sould I believe you. Do you have any proof? Have you tried designing your code better?
It's very simple. C++ encourages BAD design, not good.
Not very simple at all. Who says C++ encourages bad design? You? Citation needed!