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by ehartsuyker 3809 days ago
The Java is clean because it's perfectly understandable. I don't have to think about "+ 1m" meaning month, minute, or milli-. Verbose, yes, but the meaning is 100% unambiguous which I think makes it a better API.

> overloading strings

I'm pretty sure writing "+ 1m" is more of an overloading of a string than ".plusMinutes(1)".