I'd be totally OK with the magic in something like Spring or Ruby on Rails is another good example if it had code I could inspect when things go wrong. That is

I'd be totally OK with the magic in something like Spring or Ruby on Rails is another good example if it had code I could inspect when things go wrong. That is really my one and only complaint that I have about "magic". I currently find myself playing around now a lot with Dart which has a lot of the same convenience and just handles it via code generation rather than dynamic magic at runtime. For me at least, it's a really nice trade off. It also for the record has fully sound null safety which is something I have only ever seen in Swift previously but is a real pleasure to work with. I guess in the Java world you have options like Quarkus that also give you a similar kind of experience.