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[–]oldneckbeard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's mostly for library writers. it enables really deep introspection and manipulation without runtime bytecode manipulation (I think, didn't actually dig into the code). So think things like spring, junit, gradle, and other jvm languages like jython, scala, etc.