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It may be desirable for boilerplate to be maximally painful if it forces our collective hands to cut down on boilerplate and innovate it away
by kyleee 5y ago
It may be desirable for boilerplate to be maximally painful if it forces our collective hands to cut down on boilerplate and innovate it away
- kevingadd 5y agoWho is realistically going to innovate the boilerplate out of Java if they're stuck using it at work?
- gridspy 5y agoThat, or any job where you're not permitted to make the sweeping changes required to resolve boilerplate. Many of my jobs had such restrictions.
- stelcodes 5y agoI mean, Clojure kinda does that
- amusedcyclist 5y agoLombok and most intellij features make java boilerplate pretty obselete.
- closeparen 5y agoThat’s a good plan if your language isn’t Go. For us I think tools to wrangle boilerplate are a lot more feasible than actually eliminating it.
- zomglings 5y agoif commentErr != nil { hn.Upvote("https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017491") }
- verve_rat 5y agoIn my experience whenever someone tries to "innovate" away boilerplate they end up creating shitty abstractions that are inflexible, poorly documented, and unmaintained. Boilerplate generally exists for a reason, and it's not because the creator likes typing.