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    1 year ago

    Lombok will shrink the 200 lines of getters and setters to one or two. It has its own pitfalls of course, but IMO it’s definitely worth it.

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      1 year ago

      Corporate standards.

      I’m pushing for no half measures: it’s Kotlin or bust.

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        1 year ago

        Definitely agree that Kotlin is so much better than Java + Lombok, but it’ll take a lot of time for all the existing Java projects or migrate to Kotlin or reach EOL. In the meantime, it’s hard to avoid the occasional Java project…

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          Sure but you can also just drop kotlin into any Java codebase. It’s a single line maven import and the entire company already uses Intellij