Comment by marginalia_nu

I think that school of Java is on the way out. Since it's absurdly backward compatible there's a lot of factoryfactory code still lingering, but I don't see it being written a lot.

Though there are a lot of unfortunate "truths" in Java programming that seems to encourage malignant abstraction growth, such as "abstractions are free", and "C2 will optimize that for you". It's technically kinda mostly true, but you write better code if you think polymorphism is terribly slow like the C++ guys tend to do.