Yeah, I’ve done Spring stuff for the last 16 years, going from XML config (which, frankly, was nice in that there was a central place to see the structure of th

Yeah, I’ve done Spring stuff for the last 16 years, going from XML config (which, frankly, was nice in that there was a central place to see the structure of the app) to the more modern Java/annotation/magic-based config. I find it very intuitive and straightforward to set up, Spring Data is damn near magical and at one point, the app that I joked about (three lines of Java, 20 lines of annotations) became reality for a program that was populating RabbitMQ from change data written to a DB2 table. Maybe it’s because my programming days date back to the era of 7-bit ASCII and every language implementation was a little different from the others in what aspects and extensions of the language it provided, but I find Java/Spring a pretty comfortable place to work (which is not to say that I eschew other languages). In general, I find that most of the time when developers express hate for a language or platform it really boils down to: “this isn’t what I’m used to and I don‘t want to change.”