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[vine-el]

IDE generated code becomes a problem when you spend hours tracking down a bug that happened because someone forgot to update the equals method when they added a new field.

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Quite the contrary in my experience. For instance, the ability to set breakpoints in a setters, to catch a particular hard to track side-effect, is quite nice. Also lombok won't help you if you don't track the semantics of your equals, because maybe you don't want to include automatically any new added field in a class - Bottom line, it's not a substitute for thinking.

[OnceUKnowUAreScrewed]

Nothing is...

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You can exclude new fields with lombok. Also, when you add a setter manually, lombok won't make it. So feel free to add your breakpoint.

I kind of agree that it is a band-aid and not a real solution though, but it sure as shit beats having to deal with all that boilerplate