[potatoyogurt]

Why do you think Java is so much harder to refactor? Java and python are not that much different, and Java has static types which aid refactoring as well as a really strong tooling ecosystem. I haven't worked with large python codebases, but it hasn't really been my experience that refactoring Java is unusually hard, except insofar as average code quality among projects written in Java is probably lower.

[toolslive]

Java IDEs have good support for refactoring since the late 90s:

  - rename/move class (and autoupdate all references)
  - change method signature

most of it is just stating what you want and the tool does it for you. I don't see that level of support from python IDEs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671783