Thank you, Marcus, for a really good and very timely article.

I've been using Java since its very beginning and, because I work hard to design and craft code that is short, to-the-point, and self-descriptive, have haven't really suffered too much from Java's verbosity.

Except for Java records, I have not been paying enough attention to the new language features.

Thank you for opening my eyes!

I'm just embarking on a new project building a DSL for a ubiquitous language and using ANTLR to transform it into Java.

The generated Java source will now be a much simpler, cleaner, and more readable --- and I will be a better programmer.