aeveltstra, 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 this article on Java Records: https://medium.com/naukri-engineering/avoid-lombok-use-records-to-write-cleaner-code-in-java-17-b174548a6f5f