I’ve spent most of my 25+ year career working in other platforms/frameworks, and only in the past 5 years or so started working in Java. Not by choice. As such,

I’ve spent most of my 25+ year career working in other platforms/frameworks, and only in the past 5 years or so started working in Java. Not by choice. As such, I’ve got lots of bones to pick about the language and the JVM (the former of which I’ve worked around by using Kotlin, which I quite like). The meme about factories, however, has perplexed and kind of annoyed me. Isn’t that more a symptom of once-popular design paradigms that overstayed their welcome or perhaps never were, which can happen in any long lived ecosystem (in this case, one I’ve seen pop up here and there in other OOP platforms, such as .NET)? Maybe I’m spoiled by mostly having worked in recent Spring Boot where I rarely see these tedious and awkward patterns, and perhaps the meme is more impactful for people stuck in legacy land, but there is a bit of hubris with these blanket associations that rubs me the wrong way. I’m no Java apologist, either.