When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community..

The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast..

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readabl….

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly..

When in doubt, leave it out..

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names..