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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh for sure. I have nothing against getters and setters when they're justified, but in the case of bare fields with no validation like that example it's just annoying.
Also stuff like this just grinds my gears (oversimplified example again):

class IntegerAdder {
    private int a, b;
    public IntegerAdder(int a, int b) {
        this.a = a;
        this.b = b;
    }
    
    public int get_sum() {
        return a + b;
    }
}

Just make it a bloody function.
You may say it's silly, but I've genuinely found code like this in the wild. Not that exact code snippet of course but that was the spirit.