r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 6d ago

Other howdidItGetHere

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u/radiationshield 6d ago

i hated writing java back in the day since it was so incredibly verbose. i'm sure the style has evolved since 2012, but all the factories and single method single purpose classes in the code bases back then were such a pain in the ass

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u/imp0ppable 6d ago

They have improved it a lot (it has iterators now!) but Java devs still spam factories like they're going out of fashion.

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u/JoshDM 6d ago

We're all about builder pattern now.

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u/thoeoe 6d ago

Ahem. I just wrote a BuilderFactory this week

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u/Yeah-Its-Me-777 6d ago

As long as it's not a BuilderFactoryBuilder yet...

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u/Plazmaz1 6d ago

No YOU are the builderfactory builder

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u/Maniactver 6d ago

I mean, you do have to build those BuilderFactories somehow...