JDK 8 calendar builder (opens in new tab)

A good example of bloatware encouraged by a non-expressive language. Instead of adding a language feature that makes constructing any instance easier, in 2013 they're adding support for a builder on a single Calendar class.

    final Calendar calendar =  
       new Calendar.Builder()  
         .set(YEAR, 2013)  
         .set(MONTH, APRIL)  
         .set(DATE, 6)  
         .build(); 

For a similar API in C# you could use named parameters:

   var calendar = new Calendar(year:2013, month:Month.April, date:6);

or just set public properties in an object initializer:

    var calendar = new Calendar { 
      Year = 2013,
      Month = Month.April,
      Date = 6,
    };

Likewise in Dart with named parameters:

   var calendar = new Calendar(year:2013, month:APRIL, date:6);

or using method cascades:

    var calendar = new Calendar()
      ..year = 2013
      ..month = APRIL
      ..date = 6;

For C#, Dart you get this for free when constructing any object. Java requires creating the boilerplate of a builder for every class?? and with all that effort it's still more verbose.

To be honest, this just seems like bloating the JRE even further with stuff that can be in a library (and is - JODA time?). I can't wait for Java 9 (I think?) that will finally work on modularising the JRE so I don't have to include most of this stuff if not needed...

I was always curious, why they called this class as Calendar. It's actually date/datetime/time.