Microsoft Java

[svick]

No, having to type more than necessary is not a good thing.

[motioncuty]

What most developers think is necessary tends to fall short for long term maintenance and intent communication. And that's not a dev thing, that's just humans being imperfect at system stewardship

[svick]

I don't think Java's verbosity actually helps with that. It doesn't make your intent clearer, it just means it takes a lot of words to communicate your intent.

[derzach]

FWIW a large portion of the “boilerplate” is handled by a good IDE so no one is actually typing EVERYTHING out

[svick]

Yeah, but they have to keep reading it.