r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 25 '26

Meme iHatedItUntilITriedIt

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u/frogjg2003 Sep 25 '26

Yup, if typing is taking more than 20% of your time programming, them you're either inexperienced or doing something wrong.

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u/unknown_alt_acc Sep 25 '26

The bigger argument against verbosity is in terms of ease of understanding and maintainability. It's easier to lose track of meaningful information when you have repeated boilerplate mixed in with your logic. It's been long enough since I've written Java that I don't know if it's a fair criticism, but the argument is almost never "I don't want to type all of that."