This can be stated more generically by saying, that in the past it was possible to tell what a line of code does in Java. This is what you pay for when you bear

This can be stated more generically by saying, that in the past it was possible to tell what a line of code does in Java. This is what you pay for when you bear costs of strong typing -- being able to say what is that thing holding. But that very important valuable feature was squandered over time with the biggest offender being Spring.