If I'm not mistaken, Lombok generates the boilerplate at the bytecode level, not at the source code level. Which makes it much more like a language feature, and

If I'm not mistaken, Lombok generates the boilerplate at the bytecode level, not at the source code level. Which makes it much more like a language feature, and while I haven't used it extensively seems like a decent library solution to what is normally considered a language problem.