> People abusing Java with overengineering and using factories and other enterprisey design patterns for everything made a lot of people leave the Java land!

Actually, people left Java land because they couldn't express what they needed to without using complicated design patterns.

A "static factory" is just a static method. You know, a function. Nothing over-engineered or enterprisey about using functions to allocate objects.

Why state the obvious?

> Why state the obvious?

So you think using functions is enterprisey and over-engineering things?

Read my other reply to you on the subject! The API might be a small syntactic change, but the concepts and the implementation behind those for noobs are not. They learn OOP and constructors and then you tell them - they suck, use factories via static methods.

Yes, but that's a fault in Java the language. Keeping Java bad doesn't solve that problem.

I agree. A little native support for wide-spread best practices would only be a good thing for Java.