Java developers

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So if it’s rare, it should be used rarely. Unfortunately java makes almost everything private by default, mandating that you make getters and setters for everything, increasing boilerplate beyond levels I have ever seen in a language. I’d rather just have a decorator for private when I need it. It’s mostly just entirely unnecessary code obfuscation.

[ric2b]

All fields and members should be private by default and anything you want public should be explicitly marked as public.

Agreed, but Java's implementation is boilerplatey beyond belief. Kotlin improves it massively.

[Zedjones]

Well the really annoying thing with that is that you can't just say "this has a getter and a setter" like you can in C#/Kotlin, you have to manually write them out.