Yeah, I agree with this sentiment. The boilerplate was oddly helpful when I was starting out.

That's just Stockholm Syndrome. Think about it: what more crazy garbage could you add that is useless for the beginner but "will make sense later"?

The answer is: infinitely much. You could have to write each character in strings as separate characters for example. It would be absolute utter madness but it "would make sense later".

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almogo a day ago | parent [-]

I agree specifically, but disagree generally.

As we become more and more acquainted with programming, a lot of what we do why we do it is incoherent nonsense to a beginner, but important nonetheless.

The limit is actually your time and effort. But nobody likes to write optimal assembly by hand, the balance has to be struck somewhere.

	▲	boxed 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But there is nothing important or useful in all that Java garbage. You could write entire programs without classes! That's the class, the static, AND the final keywords. You can't really escape String[], which imo is fine. It's better than argv/argc in C at least.