@tonic oh me too. I'm taking the piss out of Java for being a language where the nugget of what you actually want to do is wrapped in a thick candy shell of the boilerplate crap you have to write to make the ecosystem happy. As in "of course you can get a machine to write that! A machine should have been writing it the whole damn time!" ;)

(Java is one of those languages I'm perfectly happy to use with a competent IDE in the loop to do all the drudgery for me of renaming and type-changing variables, making , package declarations match with the package path, caring for and feeding the brood of young imports that have made a nest in the top of every one of my files, making file names match the class name since the language demands it, etc etc).