I no longer care. Java is overly verbose, but therefore explicit. I'm happier to do concise Scala with more stuff implicit stuff going on, or more explicit stuf

I no longer care. Java is overly verbose, but therefore explicit. I'm happier to do concise Scala with more stuff implicit stuff going on, or more explicit stuff in Java with lots of Spring config. Opinionated frameworks which hide stuff from me are bad. They're good for initial productively, but you pay the price later - you have to understand it to weak it, and may find the architecture doesn't fit your problem. On the other hand, writing a Spring config file from scratch is a horrific process, especially without the Spring eclipse plug-in. But now that I understand web.xml's and application-context.xml/*-servlet.xml, and have written plenty of Spring config, my productivity is pretty damn good. So why should I care.