Java's libraries, coding conventions and culture made it verbose more than the core language itself ever required. Starting from scratch and eschewing "good pra

Java's libraries, coding conventions and culture made it verbose more than the core language itself ever required. Starting from scratch and eschewing "good practices" it was always possible to write much leaner code. Get rid of getters and setters, make every field public and final, use anonymous classes to implement interfaces inline, that sort of thing. Obviously wouldn't pass a code review at any "serious" shop ten years ago. But look at Java 20 now, with immutable records and closures and type inference? Well now that code style is now ok! But obviously my ten year old PR is still not approved...