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Take a step up the enlightenment ladder and put a type dynamic language on top of java. Lombok is silly and makes your object’s serialization capabilities a dice roll. Keep annotations to a minimum and bring in a type dynamic language (groovy, kotlin, etc)

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I find static languages much easier for large code bases. Also, can you code dynamic features with java's reflection API?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/reflect/index.html

Kotlin is statically typed. It has full type inference, though (AFAIK).

Kotlin is statically typed. Perhaps you mean Clojure.

I've used plenty of dynamic languages before, but I don't see how that would help in this case.

The point is that I wanted statically typed records, which a dynamic language won't give me. Java has added syntax for defining records now, which is great, but I'm not (yet) able to use the latest version.

> makes your object’s serialization capabilities a dice roll

Not sure how? The effect of @Value is documented.

Yes, groovy + @CompileStatic is comprehensively better than java with little to no performance loss.

Exactly.... all the benefits of dynamic, with all the benefits of static compilation.

I have no problem whatsoever with groovy, but I heard “all the parts Java programmers hate about JavaScript with all the part JavaScript developers hate about Java”, and I had to reread your reply to realize you are not writing something like this :D

Like this? https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

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