I wonder if it’s ‘fun to write’ because the boilerplate lets the author feel like they’re writing lots of code, even though it’s unnecessary in other languages.

I wonder if it’s ‘fun to write’ because the boilerplate lets the author feel like they’re writing lots of code, even though it’s unnecessary in other languages. I’ve never met a developer in industry who prefers Java to Scala, and having used both in production myself, I’d agree too.