I'm from the ancient years of Java, surely this must have started at some point ?
Do you get getters and setters ?
I left Java around version 5.
Do you get getters and setters ?
I left Java around version 5.
First off, there's the question of if most things should even *allow* updates or just be immutable.
Second, what's the discernable difference between `public final int foo` and `private final foo` w/ `public int getFoo()`. Nothing really. The claim was always "but what if you want to update `foo` to be something more complex? The pain that these advocates always suggested never really wound up being much of a real world problem.
But those were mistakes imposed by frameworks. Not a necessity for good language usage.
[0] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/language/records.h...