[mschulze]

> ...not to mention that it only works with IDEs.

That's not true. Lombok is an annotation preprocessor. That means it is running with javac which is independent of any build tools or IDEs. As long as it is on the classpath when compiling (-cp flag of javac) it works.

Of course for code completion you need an editor that is aware of Lombok / uses the compiled bytecode for that.