[DanielHB]

I remember when I first got out of uni and did backend Java development, I thought I was incredibly productive because of the sheer amount of typing and code I had to pump out.

After doing a bit of frontend JS I was quickly dissuaded of that notion, all I was doing was writing really long boilerplate.

This was in the Java 6 days, so before a lot of nice features were added, for example a simple callback required the creation of a class that implements an interface with the method (so 3 unique names and a bunch of boilerplate to type out, you could get away with 2 names if you used an anonymous class).