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by acbart 549 days ago
So you believe that your experience is a universal one for all learners? Cognitive load is a real consideration in teaching, and having to ignore and filter text is challenging for some folks.
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The boilerplate around a main function is 10 units of load. Everything else you have to know to write a simple program is 500-600 units of load. The boilerplate is a rounding error, and just does not matter.
Yes, all people are different, and some are smarter than others. Education funding won’t change that.

Way to disparage a random person on the internet.

Mostly yes. Given how much there is to learn, public static void main is not going to be “the problem”.