I think I'm going to convince my team to get to 16 (with records) before I can convince them to stop adding getters and setters everywhere, but just out of curiosity... how did you manage to make this happen?
Well - I was the boss :) so that helped. But I’d also taken over a fairly unhappy and unproductive team that was ready to try new stuff. I’d been out of the game for a few years and had some fresh perspectives too.
So I did some small standalone projects and demonstrated how much easier life was with this and other (more significant) changes. For example, we had loads of operational problems with dependency injection - the usual cognitive and debugging issues - so I threw all of that out too, along with the frameworks that implemented them. Things started booting in a few seconds instead of minutes and I’d say the lack of setters/getters was mostly done because I built trust in my team that I was making their lives better so they just followed me.
Probably not the answer you were looking for but there was friction from the devs and in the end I just showed them how much nicer life could be...
So I did some small standalone projects and demonstrated how much easier life was with this and other (more significant) changes. For example, we had loads of operational problems with dependency injection - the usual cognitive and debugging issues - so I threw all of that out too, along with the frameworks that implemented them. Things started booting in a few seconds instead of minutes and I’d say the lack of setters/getters was mostly done because I built trust in my team that I was making their lives better so they just followed me.
Probably not the answer you were looking for but there was friction from the devs and in the end I just showed them how much nicer life could be...