Thank you. I have programmed Java for years, but it's been frustrating. The clean language I learnt at university, that I love to bits, seems to be used approxi

Thank you. I have programmed Java for years, but it's been frustrating. The clean language I learnt at university, that I love to bits, seems to be used approximately nowhere. Instead, it's always some monstrosity held together by inheritance, XML/(awful) Gradle and liberal sprinklings of magical annotations that always (always!) bite you in the backside at runtime rather than at compile time, because why would you prefer to have good tooling that takes advantage of static typing to tell you what might go wrong. I am appalled by what Spring mentality did to my language.