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Re:Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typi... by throwaway_x13zd on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:14AM (#19824599)
Manifold is an amazing piece of engineering. Scott McKinney, the author, used to work on Gosu but mostly focuses on this now.

He added GraphQL support a few weeks ago:

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold-sample-graphql-...

You can just drop graphql files in your resources directory and start coding against them as type-safe interfaces immediately, no code-gen required.

The @Jailbreak annotation is awesome too.

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Re:Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typi... by mindcrime on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:41AM (#19824843)
Looks pretty cool. Reminds me a lot of the ways in which Groovy improves Java.
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Re:Manifold: Java Type-Safe Metaprogramming, Structural Typi... by vorg on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:57PM (#19829642)
Apache Groovy really improved on Beanshell (by adding closures, in 2003), which is what improved on Java (by adding dynamic typing, in late 1990's).
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