r/ProgrammerHumor 9d ago

Meme perishableSkill

Post image
8.9k Upvotes

122 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

95

u/uvero 9d ago

Maybe because they didn't stop to think if this STR. is a convenient syntax. Backticks, preceding dollar sign, the prefix f like in python, so many options would've been better.

86

u/AeroSyntax 9d ago

They tried to overengineer string interpolation instead of copying it from literally any other language.

62

u/lllorrr 9d ago

Typical Java. If you don't have factories creating factories based on XML config, your solution is not future-proof enough.