Consider that people to this day still dog Java for being overly verbose, and then consider how much boilerplate (code and XML) is required to make something li

Consider that people to this day still dog Java for being overly verbose, and then consider how much boilerplate (code and XML) is required to make something like a Spring REST controller that includes dependency injection. You can boil that down to basically one small class with a couple of annotations these days. The old way is absolutely dreadful in comparison.