6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Lombok first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I have been using Lombok for many years and haven't experienced any issues.”
endorse · production · throwaway8546 · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Lombok itself is a compiler hack, I don't like it.”
regret · production · 0xmarcin · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use this with great success and predictability and it removes so much boilerplate.”
endorse · production · agsilvio · 2019-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“While I tried to use Lombok in Java 8, it never felt safe. Even if I enabled the integration with the IDE, it magically patches my code under the hood”
regret · personal · buremba · 2019-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Lombok on all our Java services and have never had an issue”
endorse · production · scalesolved · 2016-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My bread and butter used to be Spring-Boot w/ Lombok”
neutral · production · Tsarbomb · 2022-04-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?