> I’ll take a well maintained and well documented Java codebase I get your point but at some point the boilerplate becomes depression inducing for me, I can't

> I’ll take a well maintained and well documented Java codebase I get your point but at some point the boilerplate becomes depression inducing for me, I can't see myself being motivated to work on a Java codebase, the language and the patterns that arise from it just get in the way of solving the problem too much. It's like having to do a relatively easy job but only being allowed to use one hand, it becomes frustrating that you can't use both hands when you see it would take 1/2 effort and then I become even less motivated to work and it's a bad spiral :)