Like Roman Empire, Java will take a long time to become irrelevant despite continuing stream of hindsight rants. Annotation in itself is not bad IMO. Used care

Like Roman Empire, Java will take a long time to become irrelevant despite continuing stream of hindsight rants. Annotation in itself is not bad IMO. Used carefully as language-level extension mechanism like it is being used by Swift, it's useful. What I disliked when annotation was first introduced is User-defined Annotation because the feature in-effect turns code into magic.