record-builder

Quality of life libraries like Lombok (or my library https://github.com/Randgalt/record-builder) are now anachronisms. Agents don’t need libraries to avoid writing getters, setters, etc. Lombok et al are for humans and the days of human coding are ending, sadly.

https://github.com/Randgalt/record-builder The upsides are: - it generates code and does not do anything funky with internals, - it has a lot of knobs if you need something a little different. The downside is that it does not provide you with the other Lombok annotations. In practice that has been OK!

The problem with this approach is that in the mean time the people will have to adopt crutches like https://github.com/Randgalt/record-builder and by the time Java adds missing features all the codebases will be forever polluted with legacy workarounds that nobody will dare to remove because of backwards compatibility. It also hinders adoption of new features as people will prefer to maintain consistency in their codebases.

Java is built upon it's community :), look no further: https://github.com/Randgalt/record-builder, although hiding the constructor behind the builder is not something I am sure supported by that library I also remember a discussion in the mailing list about withers: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2020-M... Not sure where it stands now, you can ask in the mailing list about this

https://github.com/Randgalt/record-builder This project is an annotation processor that creates: - a companion builder class for Java records - an interface that adds "with" copy methods - an annotation that generates a Java record from an Interface template The growing community of RecordBuilder users has resulted in the latest release. Over the past few releases, these features have been added: - Support single item collection builders - Include all records from a list of packages - Special handling for record components of type List, Set,Map and Collection - Support validation api - Support for NotNull-style annotations - Set optional fields to empty by default - Support copying component annotations to builder - Custom RecordBuilder annotations - Much more!