Every mature enough language has a subset that you need to avoid. Including Java. This is precisely due to this kind of things that every company need to have coding guidelines and proper static analysis tools.

> especially when you're outsourcing to some code sweatshop.

If you outsource your dev to cheap, other side of the world, low quality engineers. Then you deserve your problem, in any language.

I worked in the past for a company (embedded programming) that had an entire team of expensive engineers in Luxembourg just to fix the stupidities of an other team of outsourced engineers in India.