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Java Records slash a million lines of code off my programs (medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/java

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Advances in the java programming language, version 16 and newer, slashed a million lines of code from my codebase. Maintaining my programs became easier overnight, due to this 1 secret trick: Records.  Unfortunately version 16 was not LTS, so I had to wait until this year's release of version 21, which is LTS.   Go read the linked article. It explains Java Records in a very approachable manner.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I already tend to have the code generator for various other abilities it offers. Things like annotations for logging, Val, and builders are just very practical and Java doesn’t otherwise have a way to get rid of that boilerplate.

If I can use a record I will now (especially since we are now on Java 17) but like I said, I haven’t been able to make spring and hibernate play nice with records so far so I’m stuck with classes for some @data things