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by throwaway894345 1773 days ago
That’s an even more superficial concern. No one is bottlenecked on the rate at which they can type.
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One especially is in the case where it's boilerplate code that does not rely on any real deep thought but writes itself, and with the possibility of bugs in it, most of all. Anyone can make a simple typo or forget something in the endless boilerplate.

It also gets in the way of reading code.

Maintainers are bottlenecked by the rate we can (re)read. Boilerplate is the problem that makes us want powerful languages; if it didn’t matter we could have stayed with assembly.