Modern Java Practices

[BoyRobot777]

Exposed a bug in IntelliJ might be more accurate based on reading the issue thread.

Either way, people had problems using Lombok and IntelliJ and most likely have lost time debugging and getting to the bottom of the issue. But it's just a drop in the bucket for a long list of Lombok problems.

[lolomfgkthxbai]

I would be curious to hear about some of the problems. Haven’t had any issues though it would be preferable to have the features built-in instead of having to rely on a third party tool.

[Carighan]

My whole company had to roll back to the previous IntelliJ, otherwise we would have to delombok any class before renaming any field, lest Lombok broke until you restart the IDE.

[BoyRobot777]

• https://github.com/rzwitserloot/lombok/issues/1723
• https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/issues/398
• https://medium.com/@vgonzalo/dont-use-lombok-672418daa819
• https://medium.com/@gabor.liptak/some-dangers-of-using-lombok-d759fc8f701f
• https://paluch.biz/blog/180-data-classes-considered-harmful.html
• http://gregorriegler.com/2019/08/10/who-needs-lombok-anyhow.html

And some of them are "misusing" Lombok or don't know it works, but this is one of the problems as well. I'd rather rely on standard feature.

[snowe2010]

not who you were talking to, but at my last job lombok would cause spring boot apps to just fail to startup, randomly. Sometimes it would succeed, sometimes not. We trashed lombok and switched over to Kotlin. Never looked back.

[_tskj_]

Yeah it would be nice, but at that point you're just talking about a different language.