I stopped at the first point out of sadness. I've worked on the JVM space for 19 years. For the last 1.5 years, I've been working in an org that uses Spring Boo

I stopped at the first point out of sadness. I've worked on the JVM space for 19 years. For the last 1.5 years, I've been working in an org that uses Spring Boot and the code, configuration, and general designing of the applications feels horrendous. I know spring boot was the 2nd (or 3rd?) attempt of Spring to get a quick development framework simiar to Rails (Spring Roo was the first I think) but my gosh it has soo much magic, and it's so slow. Starting up a app can easily take 20+ seconds, and the full start/stop cycle can take 60+ seconds. On production we often have apps taking longer than 2 minutes to boot up and the only thing they do is open a few connections to the database and to a messaging broker (both which are very fast). The component scanning "feature" is a disaster. I love ruby and find it and I know Rails also has some magic, but I love my types. I'm glad I'm going back to do something sensible in a few months. Probably Kotlin + http4k.