[s-km]

I'm of the opinion that Spring is 100% unnecessary and pretty much in all cases just straight up a bad choice. There's a ton of great companies that are built on it and depend on it, but man is using it unpleasant to say the least.

Admittedly I haven't looked at Spring w/ Kotlin at all, but I can't imagine it would solve fundamental annoyances I have with it (Why can't I capture logs globally while actually handling my exceptions locally?).

IMO the best library for Kotlin web stuff is http4k. Really nice documentation, first class integration for marshalling JSON with Moshi instead of Gson/Jackson, and very good, up-to-date consistent documentation.

[dakna]

I would love to use http4k, but last time I checked it lacked support for coroutines, which Ktor makes heavy use of.