Yes, once you start noticing the (mis)use of strings, it's everywhere. I set my IDE to make strings a bright orange color so they're very noticeable in the code

Yes, once you start noticing the (mis)use of strings, it's everywhere. I set my IDE to make strings a bright orange color so they're very noticeable in the code. With that said, you can overdo it. For example, if you're constructing a URL in an internal method that will never be seen by the caller, it's okay to just use a bare "https" without turning it into an enum like Scheme.HTTPSecure.