[macscam]

I assumed the title was about boilerplate in terms of some skeleton or framework you download. Turns out this is different from what youre talking about (verbosity). Its interesting that even in programming jargon we have two uses for the same term. They are not totally separate though. The repetitive, DRY violations eventually get abstracted into a framework, at which point the boilerplate becomes ok. And if its still too verbose, than another boiler may arose to encompass it.

[mk-61]

Well, when you have several projects using same framework/skeleton, and the latter is downloaded and copied over and over again in every project - it became verbose on highest level and can be called boilerplate.

[braveo]

The author doesn't understand what boilerplate means.

[w-ll]

>> Any time we write similar-looking code over and over, that’s considered copy-pasta.

is what i'd call it.