I agree entirely and >This kind of annotation hell is indicative of the inflexible and unextensible nature of Java. This line made me think a lot, it reminded

I agree entirely and >This kind of annotation hell is indicative of the inflexible and unextensible nature of Java. This line made me think a lot, it reminded me of this amazing talk by Guy Steele[1], an absolute must for every language developer (or software developer in general, really). It's ironic that he's mostly referring to Java the language itself when he talks about "flexiblity" and "growing the language", where ~10 years later we all know that Java is becoming a messy inflexible deprecation hell. Still a solid talk nonetheless! [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0