You are correct about the many frameworks being used by various Java developers, the core messaging systems for the Java and C/C++ applications are the same products (Tibco and IBM MQ Series). In the world of C++ doing hello world using STL can use around 1,500 lines of code at compile time and I agree 'our' C/C++ developers are more aware of what design and coding shortcuts can do to the environments their applications are deployed.
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So I work for a firm where Java performance is highly debated (e.g. threading, garbage collection, overuse of abstraction, interprocess latency, write once, debug everywhere, debuggers for real-time apps, etc). The C and C++ applications developed in-house are used for our real-time systems (high speed prop trading systems) based on high volume/low latency mulit-cast messaging. We do not have memory, latency, debugging issues, etc with these applications,...