Avoid Lombok. Use Records to write cleaner code in Java 17.
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“The ratio of time spent reading vs. writing code is well over 10 to 1. Making it easy to read makes it easier to write.” — Robert C…

Advances in the java programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records. 
Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year’s release of version 21, which is LTS. 
 Go read the linked article. It explains Java Records in a very approachable manner.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Groovy did this ages ago- I don’t do much groovy anymore, but the more I use other languages (nodeJS, python, etc) the more I appreciate all the developer friendly language features it has (and has had for over a decade). I find myself having to use lodash and its variants on other platforms to make up for the lack of all the really useful functional methods and lambdas.