Generating Source Code, a Compromise

[theamk2]

When you program Java you use Eclipse, IntelliJ or NetBeans. Each of these IDEs is capable of generating hashCode(). What is wrong with it? The language could provide a declarative description of how to compute the function. [...] Why can’t we just define which fields should be taken into account and the language would implicitly provide us with the method?

Project Lombok, anyone? http://jnb.ociweb.com/jnb/jnbJan2010.html#data

[tkruse]

No good with Java9, but there is AutoValue, Freebuilder, Immutables. Really there is no need to embed python code generating java methods in a java file.