The short answer is yes, we use a fair amount of C++, and yes, we've eliminated writing the JNI code for developers on the team. We're planning on writing more

The short answer is yes, we use a fair amount of C++, and yes, we've eliminated writing the JNI code for developers on the team. We're planning on writing more about both of these topics in a future blog post and we're interested in sharing our tools with the community, though it will take some work to make them less specific to our code base.