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by vbsteven 2102 days ago
Nobody forces you to use it, there are a lot of alternatives out there.

But I have to admit that Spring Boot combined with Kotlin is the most productive development environment I have ever worked in. I am not surprised it is so popular among Java devs.
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selfhoster11 2102 days ago
> Nobody forces you to use it, there are a lot of alternatives out there.

That assumes you're starting a greenfield development. If you're joining existing companies with a mature tech stack, you won't be able to unseat their existing choices because there's a lot of risk involved.

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sigzero 2102 days ago
That's just how it works period. Regardless of what software stack you use.
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