[rowland_street]

I wrote this article, I'd just like to clear up my intent.

Firstly the Java patterns. Obviously it's not really necessary to use them for my toy example, but I don't want to write a blog about a full scale enterprise app. I have seen multiple tech teams at different companies evolve separately towards using similar patterns in both Java and C#. Doing so solves problems in concurrency and maintainability (This is documented in the other blogs on the Unitily site https://www.unitily.com/learning.html). I've seen teams be very successful using them. I like Java. Im not criticising it, I'm trying to explain why people do.

UnitilyLang doesn't exist, I'm not writing that language, the examples in that article are the only code snippets I've ever written (and probably ever will). The point is that there is a one to one mapping between that representation and the java code using the described patterns. This highlights the extra code you have to write in Java (and similar languages) just to support the clean code patterns.

Sure if you used Kotlin or Closure (or any functional language) it becomes less of an issue, and this is exactly the point I'm trying to make. However, its rare you have the option to choose a language, so developers end up coding in Java and complaining about it.

I don't like the new title the moderators have created, (perhaps the my initial one was a bit click baity) but generating code is only mentioned once in the last paragraph. The point of this article is to highlight that once you follow a set of coding principles which solve specific problems you are going to have to write extra code to do so. Perhaps something like

Writing clean code in Java requires boilerplate, learn to love it.

would have been a better title.

The video demo at the bottom of the article generates the code from pictures not UnitilyLang. These pictures are tightly coupled to the specific coding patterns, but is (in my opinion) a more natural definition than both Java and UnitilyLang.

[purple_ducks]

> I have seen multiple tech teams at different companies evolve separately towards using similar patterns in both Java and C#

Could you give us some background on your professional experience? There is no "About" section on the site.

[rowland_street]

I've been a professional developer for 10 years at several mid size companies. I've led teams for a large proportion of that time. Not claiming to know everything, still learning. I'm just writing up my thoughts at this time, they do change (they often cycle).