the problem is less that coders are the kind of idiots who'll say "you don't need a DoClearlyExpressedThing() method when you can just write <big pile of boilerplate> every time", it's that they're such cope monsters they build egos out of how clever <big pile of boilerplate> is
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Scala is a whole bundle of crazy with epochal compile times, but I miss having a collections library with powerful descriptive methods. "grouped", "sliding", "takeWhile", being able to treat a String as a collection of characters. Great stuff.
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then i get to have a whole new level of hate when all this expressiveness comes at the cost of spewing forth malloc garbage like a comet taking the big plunge directly into a stellar corona
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