I'm sure there are many other features that I'm not using. Has anyone got some good ones? The weirder and more obscure the better.

I think I'm going to use Go this year

I have had this exact issue. So far, Waterfox has been a surprisingly good alternative. It's a fork of firefox that removes telemetry and other bloaty features.

www.waterfox.net

****Sobes in bytecode****

So Final doesn't actually mean final.....

"Final fields are, in reality, as mutable as non-final fields. We cannot rely on final fields to be immutable when reasoning about correctness, and we cannot use final fields to construct the deeply immutable graphs of objects that enable the JVM to deliver the best performance optimizations." 😢

This is increasingly disappointing. I can help it a lot if a handhold it like a junior but these things cost as much as one. Why not employ someone instead.

I think the idea stems from this study.

The TLDR is that multi line comments seemed to help but type annotations made the completion worse.

arxiv.org/pdf/2304.122...