What are the risks with Project Lombok?

Question

I\'m coming up with performance goals for the new year, and I thought I\'d be fun to put a goal to reduce the size of the code base, especially boilerplate. One action I\'ve com

Answer 1

In my opinion source code in "Java+Lombok" is not Java source code anymore. I see it as something similar Borland company made many years ago in their Borland C++ Builder IDE for VCL - they introduced "properties" in C++ code effectively introducing some kind of a new programming language that wasn't C++ anymore (not C++ in sense of standard of C++ language). Sources using "Java+Lombok" are not valid sources in sense of Java language specification. Moreover I think annotations were not designed to influence language semantic.