Shift from Java to c++

Question

I have been developing applications based on C# (.net) and Java (J2EE) for the last 3 years.

But now I feel, Java, C# makes you lame (from learning point of view) and yo

Answer 1

If you really want to know more about low level programming I would recommend learning C and Assembly. C++ is much more complex than C but really doesn't give you much more insight into low level concerns. It might be interesting if you want to learn about what type of concepts and constructs a programming language can be made up of though, since C++ has a lot of them.

There is also a lower level of your VM you don't seem to know yet and which you might want to explore. To learn about the internals of Java I would recommend learning how to program the JVM in (Java) Assembly language. Jasmin (http://jasmin.sourceforge.net/) is the reference assembler/syntax for this kind of programming. Another great resource is the Java Language specification (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/j3TOC.html) which contains a lot of Java internals. When you have learned C you can also use some lower level APIs the JVM provides (http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jvmti/) that allow you to retrieve low level information about a running JVM and write interesting things like debuggers.

If you learn this stuff and do some hacking on your own you will learn how the JVM works and what the compiler actually puts into your class files. It's also very likely that you discover some new things about the Java programming language itself you didn't know before even if you think you know everything about it.

You can also program the .Net VM in assembly by the way.