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Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by kaba0 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @01:44AM (#33904969)
Java is much much shorter than Go, which oddly enough never gets this “complement”. So, take these boilerplate claims for Java with a grain of salt.

But to actually provide an answer, records shorten the language to a great degree in my opinion, there is also type inference with `var`, so on a local scope you can write really short code. The main method is still chatty, but it’s not like you actually have to write all that many times, plus it is just psvm for most IDE users.

Re:Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API by peterashford on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:29AM (#33918994)
Yes! I work programming in Go. I like it a lot - its a very pragmatic language. But I couldn't believe that people who derided Java for verbosity were raving about Go. It's pretty good, but the boilerplate is extreme