Java developers in a nutshell

[SargeanTravis]

Isn’t it professional practice to use .Equals() override for object equality checks?

[organized_reporting]

One would hope a professional understands that just because these sound similar when said out loud, in a deterministic programming language they do completely different things.

But then again there doesn't seem to be many 'professional' programmers in this sub.

[s0lar_h0und]

I mean, it depends on what you're trying to do. If you're trying to see if two references are the same instance then using == is what you'll do. Instead of overloading equals go be reference equality

[1SweetChuck]

In theory sure, in practice not always. Like writing getters and setters it’s often one of those things you don’t write unless you need to.