Drop Getters and Setters: Embrace Immutability and Cleaner Code

This article critiques the overuse of getter and setter methods, highlighting how they lead to increased mutability in code, making it harder to maintain and reason about. The author advocates for immutability whenever possible and introduces the `with` pattern and the Builder pattern for creating immutable copies of objects when modifications are necessary. Ultimately, the article emphasizes that if mutability is unavoidable, it should be confined to the smallest possible scope, and meaningless getters and setters should be discarded, leading to cleaner, more understandable, and concurrent-friendly code.