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If rampant reflection becomes a taboo because of native compilation, that would be great.

• jillesvangurp 6y ago
  This is already happening with Kotlin driving people to use functions instead of annotations. E.g. the kofu project gets rid of most anootation driven configuration for Spring Boot; specifically with the aim to speed up startup and ultimately enable native compilation via Graal.
  • augusto-moura 6y ago
    You can use annotations without reflections, you just need another build step, take a look at Micronaut [1], it really looks like Spring Boot but makes all annotation processing in compile time. Because of that it also supports GraalVM as first class [1] http://micronaut.io/ http://micronaut.io/
    • haram_masala 6y ago
      Thanks for sharing this, I’m new to Micronaut - it seems to solve a lot of problems inherent to Java.
    • stuff4ben 6y ago
      Really, thanks for sharing this. I just perused the docs and its got me excited to get back into Java development again!