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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Meta Don't close questions for lack of detail/confusion

No. Closing is an integral part of maintaining this knowledge repository. If a question isn't up to our standards, it doesn't belong here, and closing is the first step in ensuring that. If a quest...

posted 8mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Prevent anonymously subclassing

There is no keyword or compile-time construct to prevent this, but it can be accomplished through the use of a runtime exception: class Parent { public Parent() { if (getClass(...

posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Meta How should I organize material about text encoding in Python into questions?

The list you provided seems huge for a single Q/A. I think you're better off breaking them up, and linking to each other in the answers. The theory behind text encoding can be decoupled from Python...

posted 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Meta What is the difference between `back-end` and `backend` tags?

Quite obviously, these are the same. The name of the two is literally the same except for a hyphen. They only have one question each. Looking at the questions, they are indeed used for the same pur...

posted 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Q&A Prevent anonymously subclassing

Is it possible to somehow prohibit anonymously subclassing of a specific class? For instance, with a plain public parent class: public class Parent { } Extending this class should not be pos...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Q&A Why does a lack of object encapsulation constitute a security breach?

In the current version of OpenJDK's JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview), it is said that value classes can leak data stored in their fields, and that this is potentially a security concern...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Derek Elkins‭