[kerblang]

Sorry that I find it necessary for yet another answer to your verbosity question, but: The real verbosity is in the standard libraries. What would be a one-liner in any other language is usually at least 2, often 3, and sometimes enough that you end up writing your own wrapper function or library. Especially noticeable is the agony of Lists & Maps, which are first-class citizens in most languages (classic job interview question: what is the difference between ArrayList and LinkedList? Real answer: Nobody actually uses LinkedList).

The stdlib often seems to be written by people who had no intention of using it. I guess maybe this applies to C++ as well, so for some folks it seems normal.

[kaba0]

There is List.of() and Map.of() now. And I would say, Java has one of the better standard libs out there in my opinion.