I see what you mean. And yes, I agree. The verbose...

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[poohbar]

I see what you mean. And yes, I agree. The verboseness of Java is actually one of it's biggest advantagest in some cases. It makes you "spell everything out" over and over. (e.g. not having apply) and that is not a bad thing. Compare it to another extreme which is Scala or Clojure where writing readable code requires tremendous amount of focus and discipline. I feel like Kotlin is somewhere in the middle.