The terrible programming paradigms are workarounds for the terrible language. I read an old blog post about Spring's @Required annotation versus plain construc

The terrible programming paradigms are workarounds for the terrible language. I read an old blog post about Spring's @Required annotation versus plain constructor injection and typed out a small example to get a feel for it – a simple class with one required and one optional dependency – which resulted in 23 lines of plain Java with constructor injection, or 16 lines of Java with Spring @Autowired magic, or 7 lines of Kotlin – no magic needed.