xpath-to-xml VS Immutables

There's no official support yet, but you can hack something like this temporarily: https://github.com/SimY4/xpath-to-xml/blob/master/xpath-to-xml-scala/build-3.gradle

This is every Lombok lover's favorite strawman argument I've run into.

I've been coding in Java professionally for ~20 years. I can count with zero hands the number of times I've been burned by a getter or setter getting changed into something surprising.

If you really need auto-generated getters/setters/builders - Immutables [1] is a library that does it using bog standard annotation processing rules that don't require hacking your build process.

[1] https://github.com/immutables/immutables

https://github.com/immutables/immutables/issues/1358 https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8281238

That's good, but I prefer this : https://github.com/immutables/immutables It has all sorts of neat stuff like lazy, defered, cached, defaults etc. Just needs updating to use records.

Not bad :) I like using Immutables (which is backed by the style of implementation referenced in the link in https://github.com/immutables/immutables/issues/450)

Annotation processors? Like Immutables? Those already exists, but the major difference is that an annotation processor cannot change the processed class, but has to create another one.

While you’re looking into this I would highly recommend checking out immutables. https://github.com/immutables/immutables It is pretty popular in the industry and very nice!