I really started hating Java when I had to write a government office's Licence Management web application using Java. The tooling is brain dead, except JetBrai

I really started hating Java when I had to write a government office's Licence Management web application using Java. The tooling is brain dead, except JetBrains IntelliJ. The dependency management system is braindead too (if not for IntelliJ's maven integration). The MVC architecture implementation using Struts and Spring annotations reminds me of PHP. The resulting applications are painful to step through, I don't know why since Visual Studio can easily step through .aspx or .cshtml files. I then picked up ASP.NET MVC and haven't look back but unfortunately most of the jobs in my country (India) still use Java for legacy web applications.