I've seen a pretty big move in popular libraries to fluent interfaces. It does a pretty good job of getting over the verbosity in Java (at least where the verb

I've seen a pretty big move in popular libraries to fluent interfaces. It does a pretty good job of getting over the verbosity in Java (at least where the verbosity hurts readability). Examples like Guava: Cache<String, User> userCache = CacheBuilder.newBuilder() .initialCapacity(7) .expireAfterWrite(20, TimeUnit.MINUTES) .build(); Or Hamcrest: assertThat(result, containsString("OK")); Or Rest-Assured: expect().statusCode(200).when().get("/user/1");