> Annotation-based programming might seem cool now, but wait a few years. I even have this experience on my own projects and with much shorter span than a year

> Annotation-based programming might seem cool now, but wait a few years. I even have this experience on my own projects and with much shorter span than a year. When I go back to a code base I worked just 3-4 month ago -- I have very hard time following Dagger injections. Braking one of the Dagger providers (I use dagger 2) creates 10s and 10s of compilation errors. So I have been slowly removing dagger from my code bases. As I just cannot follow it, I do not know it well enough either. I stopped using Lombok for same reason, although I found Lombok is much more intuitive. I thought about going to Kotlin, but it was just too much of cognitive overload (in this particular instance both for backend and android UI). Instead, I am finding the use of rxjava and friends a lot more intuitive and helpful for the type of things I need help with (interconnecting components on different threads, with different lifecycle and data structure semantics, with lots of asynchronous behavior options). And the same rx-<> library is available to many other languages, therefore, the skill I am building up is sort of 'cross-language'.