Only if you're using vim like someone from the 70s, otherwise any sane IDE handles those things for you

But, yes, namespaces are still mapped to paths, it's not like they rewrote the JVM to use blockchain or something

Yeah I really like my IDE doing stuff in the background without me knowing shit about it.

Yeah, I do like my IDE doing the tedious work for me. It's also really nice to unzip any JAR I need to troubleshoot and know exactly where to navigate to find exactly the file with the code I need.

I like Golang a lot but the standardisation and verbosity in Java-land has some benefits after you get used to it enough to learn to ignore the boilerplate, it's pretty good to have some kind of consistency enforced by the VM when working in large codebases.

Yes some C# codebases end up with wildly inconsistent namespacing as you can do anything you like

I don't understand how it is doing stuff in the background.

You literally ask it to move some class and then it does it. And it's very obvious what it's doing.

Then you’d be thrilled to hear about all the stuff your NVME drivers are doing in the background without you knowing shit about it. Or maybe you prefer to engrave your ones and zeroes in stone by hand?

Abstractions exist for a reason. In Java, that abstraction is coding in classes and packages, not files of text.

>Only if you're using vim like someone from the 70s, otherwise any sane IDE handles those things for you

I don't think that's quite it when Ruby is also from the 90s and figured out not to tie namespace resolution to the directory tree

Let's not hold ruby up as a poster child for modularity.

I am not sure why this is a problem. Looking at the organization of the resources directory of every project I've ever worked on, I am not sure I want more opportunity for physical and logical concepts to unnecessarily diverge.

I mean, its the same idea as custom path config in TypeScript

better_than_having_just_a_single_file_that_have_lots_of_functions_without_namespacing

Or import ../../../../../asd

Yeah, just like Python, Ruby, JavaScript.

Ruby modules aren't tied to the file system

True, but they are loaded by path.

Yes/you/do/but/the/ide/does/it/for/you/so...

The/ide/giveths/the/ide/takeths/all/this/could/be/easier/and/you/know/it.