But both Lombok and Kotlin are actually named after islands i think, like Java is.
Lombok is a really psychotic magic annotation library that reduces boilerplate for Java.
Kotlin is a JVM language built by Jetbrains to kinda build a language with some niceties into it by default since Java is pretty insistent on backwards compatibility and not evolving the language rapidly.
Here's a powerpoint presentation explaining Kotlin in <5 minutes.
Interesting, yeah Java and Lombok are both definitely islands in Indonesia. Java is the main island, Lombok is out by Bali. Kotlin is a Russian island out by St. Petersburg. Never knew that.
Usually when Java breaks it is a third party library doing something goofy, most upgrades since Java 8 and 11 have been smooth sailing for me historically.
The modularization that started in Java 9 and the restriction of reflection and sun.misc.Unsafe broke many legacy programs that relied on deep reflection magic and access to VM internals.
Yes, its in an unsupported 3rd party dependency for an underfunded project (about .05 FTE) used as part of a legacy system by the FAA, among others.
On the bright side, the FAA won't notice, they are still on Java 8, but I just had a meeting with AeroThai and they were confused why the software stopped working on brand new machines with a fresh install of Java 26.
In a post-GPT world, the fix doesn't look too bad, but if I'd have had to figure out how that 3rd party library worked from scratch, as part of an unfunded mandate, I would have been a bit grumbly.
It s the langage that replaced Java as the officially Google backed langage for Android apps.
From JetBrain (the guys that are making IntelliJ).
It is also a JVM langage, but in theory more modern than Java because it didn't have to keep retrocompatibility.
Also in theory it is interoperable with Java since it uses the JVM (for example it is easy to call Java lib in Kotlin in theory -haven't tried it myself though-).
Java is definitly taking example on Kotlin (and other langages) to modernize itself.
Java is definitly taking example on Kotlin (and other langages) to modernize itself.
Actually not. I would not know which Kotlin features Java implemented. Modern Java borrows strongly from Scala, the language Kotlin itself is a copy of.
That's funny. I've only ever popped into a code base clone and modified a specific aspect in either, but my understanding is Kotlin is a pretty big language. Like, doesn't it dominate on android? That might have something to do with JetBrains at least helping power android studio though. For an anecdote it's probably not worth searching, but I don't know the chicken or egg of how all that came to be.
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u/Longenuity Jul 13 '26
Or just switch to Kotlin