I think the one thing that'd be nice is if I could somehow tell the JVM from a class that this class is open for final mutation rather than needing special flags passed into the JVM or special manifests in the Jar. It's often pretty clear to me, as a dev, what I when I need something to have final mutation (generally only with serialization objects).
For example,
@FinalMutatableByReflection
class Foo {
final String bar;
}
That'd allow me to transition code by just adding an annotation where it needs to be while also getting the benefit that final is really final everywhere else in code that isn't working with serialization.
I think the one thing that'd be nice is if I could somehow tell the JVM from a class that this class is open for final mutation rather than needing special flags passed into the JVM or special manifests in the Jar. It's often pretty clear to me, as a dev, what I when I need something to have final mutation (generally only with serialization objects).
For example,
That'd allow me to transition code by just adding an annotation where it needs to be while also getting the benefit that final is really final everywhere else in code that isn't working with serialization.