> What positive things can we say about a programming language where this is valid code? Just because it parses doesn't mean anyone would ever write it in a se

> What positive things can we say about a programming language where this is valid code? Just because it parses doesn't mean anyone would ever write it in a serious project. Also, I've seen worse in Java (AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean), the only difference being that someone wrote the code with good intentions -- not as a joke. "Idiomatic" Java code is often bloated, and people who write it have been trained to defend the bloat until their dying breath. > Or the community tradition of writing one liners as npm packages? I'd pick npm over the hellscape that is maven +/- gradle and managing the class path anyday. I honestly think in about 5~10 years, something like Golang is going to be more common at most forward thinking companies than Java, with or without generics.