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Why do we have this stupid code analyzer rule enabled anyway? Nobody writes code like this...

After telling them the lore why it's there:

You have seen such things before?

11 Times, as a matter of fact

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago

It's not picky, needlessly creating objects makes the garbage collector run a lot more. Especially if it's invoked frequently like Minecraft recreating the object for every block on the screen for every frame to render. The garbage collector is largely responsible for lag of up to a second occurring at random times.