Thanks posse! (and Alex and Joe)

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

That was possibly your finest interview yet. For a bunch of self-
proclaimed simpletons, those were some rather in-depth questions!

[Dick Wall]

Glad you liked it - I know we had one side of the story given the
people there but I did try and honestly advocate for Lombok and for
library vs. language extensibility. Honestly I think lombok is a very
neat idea - I can't use it yet personally for the reasons stated in
the interview (netbeans/idea support are necessary at my work place),
and also because I use Scala for a lot more stuff, but when I tried it
it worked great, and bringing scala "case classes" to Java is
definitely high on my list of cool boilerplate things. The comments
about closures were based on comments that even Reinier sent in after
our initial speculation had been done, and I didn't know how that
might work, but it sounds like you guys are definitely going to try
and I will be following the results carefully. I can see many
possibilities for Lombok in the future, but I wonder if perhaps the
biggest one is that it will be a lightning rod for change.

Reinier, we like to be able to offer both sides of the stories, and I
understand you will be at Devoxx, so maybe we can catch up with you
there, tackle some of the questions Joe and Alex raised, and get a
state of the union about Lombok. And folks, please remember, we are
trying to follow the story, not take sides. Personally I think lombok
is dead clever, it's just not quite usable for me yet...

Cheers

Dick

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

Roel will be at devoxx as well, and we'd be honoured to be interviewed
if you want one!