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Language snobs be like
Ok nobody actually wants to write Assembly, but that's still what they sound like. Optimizing for number of characters you'd have to type if you used a text editor instead of an IDE, and dumb shit like that.
The Java hate is not about wanting to type fewer characters; it's about
FactoryFactory
-type boilerplate nonsense adding conceptual bloat that obscures what the unit of code is actually trying to accomplish.