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And if you advocate for avoiding complex deps, you'll get hordes of people defending them. Someone needs all these features, they are there for a reason! The

And if you advocate for avoiding complex deps, you'll get hordes of people defending them. Someone needs all these features, they are there for a reason! The authors of the library must be experts on the subject matter and anything you'd write yourself would inevitably suck. Why reinvent the wheel badly. Why make what you can take. Etcetra. It's quite depressing.

vbezhenar 5y ago
The question is not about presence of complex tools. The question is about lack of very simple tools. I'm the person who likes simple tools. I need just a little bit more than simple System.out.println from logging. But I'm expected to use commonly accepted libraries and frameworks, nobody will be excited if I'd replace logback with my 200-lines "library". And every commonly used library in Java is complex and feature-ridden. Sometimes I wish I had more time to rewrite all Java stack, from logging to http server with dumb simple inefficient but understandable code. May be I should just move to Go. It seems to better reflect that approach. But I like Java language...