On: Lombok makes Java cool again

[noir_lord]

I actually ran into a useful case for annotations in Java the other day.

Compile time dependency injection (Micronaut framework).

Not something I have a use for but it's clever.

https://micronaut.io/

[flukus → noir_lord]

It's not exactly a new thing though, it's always been possible in a variety of ways, from build steps to pre-processor macros. Annotations mostly just do what macros or code generators have always done.