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by redtrackker 4326 days ago
What's wrong with getters and setters?

It's just redundant code. Most of the time developers don't actually need to override the basic get/set operation on a variable. Yet you have to write the get/set methods over and over.

How do other languages address this issue?

Scala does a good job. You don't need to actually write a get/set method. But if you wanted to modify getFoo() you would simply implement the method with your custom getter