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by specialist 940 days ago
Yes but: u/epolanski is referring to the abuse of metaprogramming, such that every org, every project creates its own bespoke mutant creole which remains C++ (or Haskell, Forth, LISP) in name only.

Java's founders wisely omitted metaprogramming. But memories are short. And chaos always finds a way. So now Java has its own medley of obfuscation strategies. Annotations, aspects, inversion of control, dependency injection, logging frameworks, etc.