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Java is certainly unnecessarily verbose, but if you compare it to other statically typed languages (like C++, C# or Go) and subtract the verbosity that is purely cultural (overdesign) it's not quite as verbose as it sometimes seems.

Comparing to dynamically typed languages (and even to statically typed languages using a lot of type inference) is a little tricky, because in some cases "verbose" means you have information available locally that you would otherwise have to look up elsewhere.



> verbosity that is purely cultural (overdesign) it's not quite as verbose

This is absolutely true, especially with Java 8.




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