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by e3bc54b2 591 days ago
You are really part of the cream, and I mean it as an honest compliment.

I am part of the dark matter, although self-initiated java upgrades already put me on the right side of bell-curve.

> Also I'd actively remove all apache commons as well. Even in Java8 most of the functionality is redundant.

I used to think that. Then I had to decompress zip files in memory and selectively process the children. Of course Java has the functionality covered in stdlib, but they require so much boilerplate, and commons-compress was such a pleasure that I was done in 10 minutes. The same goes for other apache libs too.

OTOH, I wholeheartedly agree about Lombok being unjustified curse.