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by needusername 3514 days ago
I am not questioning the AST approach. I'm questioning the approach of hooking into JDK internals and using JDK internals as an interface for custom check implementations.

Google has done similar things several times in the past (GWT, GAE/J, Android) and every time updates to the latest Java required a lot of effort, were therefore late and eventually abandoned.