The TDD movement came from smalltalk programmers (not that I think it has anything to do with smalltalk, just the programmers came from there). In my experience it was in Ruby and javascript code where I have seen the most inane micro(nano?)-unit tests. Some of this was partly because the unit tests were testing what a static typechecker could verify automatically (at the cost of a little verbosity).

I don't see how you figured there is a relationship between DDD and "make everything unit testable". DDD is about high level architecture. It's at the opposite end of the spectrum.

>They didn't even want to add `var` to the language until recently, and let's not even go to the anonymous class vs lambdas retardation.

This realization is always endlessly infuriating to me as someone who was taught way to much Java in Uni, and had to intensionally push myself into other languages to realize why simple things like higher-order functions were subjugated under the tyranny of classes in java.

But far worse than that is the absolutely abysmal and destructive philosophy around types in java. Just mash em together with namespaces and classes, and then nerf type inference to the point that it couldn’t infer what is literally the most trivial reflexion-based equality: “Object o = New Object()”.