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Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by dcminter on Saturday October 11, 2025 @07:21PM (#45553622)
> Are there linters for this sort of thing?

Yes and they're pretty good so it's rarely an issue in practice. Using == on object references will indeed usually get you yelled at by the linter.

Re:Rating 26 years of Java changes by MBCook on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:22PM (#45553997)
I’ll say from experience that even if your IDE highlights that by default people won’t pay any attention to it and the bug will get in.

I’ll be happy when it’s fixed.