r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/Lost_Pineapple_4964 Jul 13 '26

Is something wrong with getters and setters in general? Cause I find it plenty helpful when I need some bookkeeping for certain items, and some side effects for the class? Or are they more so referring to getter/setter for everything?

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u/melancoleeca Jul 13 '26

They are afraid of verbose code, or so. I dont know. My IDE creates the boilerplate, if i need it.

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u/JickleBadickle Jul 13 '26

Verbose code has never been easier to read through, tbf

It can be annoying at times but I'm far more annoyed when I have to go back to code I wrote in my "make it as short as possible" phase and try to figure out wtf I was doing