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While typing this comment I pressed/swiped on several words to finish them. One reads much faster than they write, I don't really see a problem with easily gue

• troupo 9d ago
  Even if you read much faster than you type, it's easier to read fewer lines of code than dozens of plumbing boilerplate.
  • gf000 8d ago
    Sure, we can find factors for "verbosity increase" and "difficulty to understand a line" where what you say is also true. I think that java found a decent spot where both factors are low. It's not a particularly verbose language, especially in modern times (records, type inference, I even mention lambdas because some people live in caves), like if you do POJOs and stuff with getter setters than you get a no information increasing extra 3+3 lines of code per field and that's most of it. Method bodies are not more verbose than other typical languages.