I think you have it backwards. Java is actually very well designed in many ways, and that means that it's easy to make really good IDEs so they are popular.
In contrast it's really hard to make good C++ code intelligence features. For many many years Microsoft was the only one that had done it (as far as I know).
In contrast it's really hard to make good C++ code intelligence features. For many many years Microsoft was the only one that had done it (as far as I know).