Tips for writing concise and elegant Java

Question

Share your tricks to make your Java code concise, still readable.

Based on Python, I suffer from “oh, it looks so verbose”, sometimes it’s hard to fit even 100-character long lines. I understand that Java is a little more verbose, and there is no way around it, but there must be little things that can save some bloated here and there ...

Answer 1

Read the clean Bob Martin code. This is a book full of tips on this topic: writing well-organized, highly readable code, with Java as the example language.

Answer 2

( if-then-else) .

String value = {condition} ? "Was true" : "Was false";

Answer 3

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