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Are people manually writing getters and setters? Every Java IDE I've used has the ability to generate them for you.

I think that the point is that you shouldn't have to rely on an IDE in the first place.

Code generation is a design smell. You shouldn't need it, and it makes the code terrible and less readable. Use Lombok, not the IDE.

When I see some one complaining code generation being design smell I gag a little at this hackneyed Fowler expression. I'm curios what do you think lambok does?

It does code generation. What id does not is _source_ code generation. That is, you never see the code Lombok generates, never have to maintain it, and never have a chance to break it by editing. You can see it as a macro substitution.

OTOH IDE-generated code is "normal" source code, adding boilerplate to your "real" code, not tracking changes in it automatically, and perfectly breakable.

"Code generation is a design smell."

What do you think Lombok is doing?

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