The joke is Java is verbose. It takes many characters to accomplish simple routines. Depending on your view that could either be good or bad for reading the code later.

[–] Anomandaris@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Sure, but most of the lines in the screenshot break down to:

object1.setA(object2.getX().getY().getZ().getI().getJ().getK().getE().getF(i).getG().toString())

Aside from creating a method inside the class (which you should probably do here in Java too) how would another language do this in a cleaner way?

[–] fredthedeadhead@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kotlin would represent the getter/setters as synthetic properties (and do so automatically, since Kotlin interops with Java).

object1.A = object2.X.Y.Z.I.J.K.E.getF(i).G.toString()

Of course it's still not great (there's still too much nesting, there's something fundamentally wrong with how the data is structured) but at least the code is less noisy.

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