Having arguments against Java deflected with "oh but annotation processors" is so annoying. Just because you can somewhat patch the holes doesn't make it a weak

Having arguments against Java deflected with "oh but annotation processors" is so annoying. Just because you can somewhat patch the holes doesn't make it a weakness of the language. Same arguments are used for C ("just use static analysis") or untyped languages ("just add a bunch of unit tests") In my current project we use Error Prone, Checkstyle, Immutables, JSR305, NullAway and a couple of other things. It makes the language tolerable, but it's a massive waste that each setup needs to introduce and tune those, and often inexperience or lack of knowledge will mean they're never introduced, if only because after a while they become painful to introduce. Better languages exists, some are even JVM, which just do this stuff properly.