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by chii 672 days ago
> Inscrutable Magic ... need to find out where all the possible annotation processors are

or you read the documentation.

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I don't think this is a good take.

Magic doesn't belong in software, and a well-designed library or framework doesn't need it to succinctly express the program logic in a way that isn't boilerplaty and bloated, not even in Java.

I may be as old and cynical as House MD but if there is anything decades in the business taught me it's that customers and documentation (esp. code comments) always lie.