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> `System.out.println` is ridiculous, and you're likely to use it many times

No, you don't use it often.

You can use it as a poor man's debugging tool, but Java actually has very nice debuggers. You can use it as poor man's logging, but then you have pretty good logging frameworks. Or you can use it as application output, but then you probably want to abstract specific output stream away from most of your business logic code and use interface.




Java’s debug tools are first class and even this stubborn vim user knows to hand over the keys to Idea anytime I have to do anything in Java.

With that said I’m still a sout, puts, Printf, cout << developer.




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