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hyperpape on July 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Immutable annotations for Java

We use annotations for some things, but they're either used at runtime for configuration or things like the lovely @Deprecated.

jestar_jokin on July 13, 2015 [–]

Another advantage of using annotations to generate code at compile time, is that any (simple) errors get detected at compile time instead of runtime. So, potentially less tests you need to write.

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