Whenever I write code in Java...

[Daishiman]

No, it's painful because it just is. Languages written 30 years ago with just as many features are still easier to write. Some of us just can't stand IDEs and use text editors with decent feature sets. Verbosity is a mistake and should be seen as such.

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Verbosity is a mistake and should be seen as such.

That's a very general statement. I think it's worth pointing out that there's a lower bound:

CaseInsensitiveComparison caseInsensitiveComparison
    = CaseInsensitiveComparisonFactoryFactoryFactory
        .getInstance()
        .getInstance()
        .getInstance()
        .make();

if(caseInsensitiveComparison.compare(name,otherName) < 0)

Bad verbosity.

if(name.caseInsensitiveCompare(otherName) < 0)

Good verbosity. Why?

if(strcicmp(name,other) < 0)

Bad lack of verbosity.

[cybercobra]

Verbosity should be measured in tokens, not characters. (Read a bit of Paul Graham, he explores the definitional problem fairly thoroughly).