Glad you liked it - I know we had one side of the story given the people there but I did try and honestly advocate for Lombok and for library vs. language extensibility. Honestly I think lombok is a very neat idea - I can't use it yet personally for the reasons stated in the interview (netbeans/idea support are necessary at my work place), and also because I use Scala for a lot more stuff, but when I tried it it worked great, and bringing scala "case classes" to Java is definitely high on my list of cool boilerplate things. The comments about closures were based on comments that even Reinier sent in after our initial speculation had been done, and I didn't know how that might work, but it sounds like you guys are definitely going to try and I will be following the results carefully. I can see many possibilities for Lombok in the future, but I wonder if perhaps the biggest one is that it will be a lightning rod for change.
Reinier, we like to be able to offer both sides of the stories, and I understand you will be at Devoxx, so maybe we can catch up with you there, tackle some of the questions Joe and Alex raised, and get a state of the union about Lombok. And folks, please remember, we are trying to follow the story, not take sides. Personally I think lombok is dead clever, it's just not quite usable for me yet... Cheers Dick On Sep 23, 7:11 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > That was possibly your finest interview yet. For a bunch of self- > proclaimed simpletons, those were some rather in-depth questions! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
