[DISCUSS] Lombok - friend or foe?

[James Turton]

Hi again Devs

This one is simple to describe.  Lombok entered the Drill code base this 
year, but not everyone feels that Lombok is appropriate for every code 
base.  To my, fairly limited, understanding the advantage of Lombok is 
that boilerplate code is reduced while the disadvantage is the 
deployment of code generation magic that can have untoward effects on 
build-time tools and IDEs.

So here is a chance to opine on Lombok if you'd like to.  My own opinion 
is very near neutral and goes something like "It burned me a bit once, 
but hasn't since, and less boilerplate is nice.  I guess it can stay 
<shrug>.  I hope I don't regret this one day."

Regards
James