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0 pointsnabogh2y ago0 comments

Disagree. Just because the ide wrote a bunch of boilerplate for me at some point doesn't mean I can know the boilerplate is unchanged without reading a bunch of getters and setters. The mental burden of tiny classes is so much nicer to read.

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jameslars2y ago

This is every Lombok lover's favorite strawman argument I've run into.

I've been coding in Java professionally for ~20 years. I can count with zero hands the number of times I've been burned by a getter or setter getting changed into something surprising.

If you really need auto-generated getters/setters/builders - Immutables [1] is a library that does it using bog standard annotation processing rules that don't require hacking your build process.

[1] https://github.com/immutables/immutables

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jameslars2y ago

This is every Lombok lover's favorite strawman argument I've run into.

I've been coding in Java professionally for ~20 years. I can count with zero hands the number of times I've been burned by a getter or setter getting changed into something surprising.

If you really need auto-generated getters/setters/builders - Immutables [1] is a library that does it using bog standard annotation processing rules that don't require hacking your build process.

[1] https://github.com/immutables/immutables

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