| You can use yaml nowadays with Spring. It's not anymore that ugly stuff it used to be 10 years ago where you had to wire everything together bit by bit. I believe one thing that really tells the Java world apart from others is the heavy reliance on DI containers like spring/karaf/osgi etc. Once you understand that, everything is simpler. I would say "believe me" in a face to face conversation, but even then it's proven useless :) Working with Spring for me has become one of those things like when people suggest to "choose a boring technology" to build something. Yes, that's it. In the positive sense, of course. There is literally an easy integration with everything you need, the learning curve is relatively smooth, and yes while it's true there are quite a few annotations you need to get used to, I believe after a few days you finally get used to it, and finally it simplifies a lot your development experience rather than making it worse. For me the only reasons I would pick Go is because of native binaries (smaller footprint, memory, cpu etc), and it's "slim" for simple programs (like Python, but again binaries/native). I also like a lot Go's syntax so that's another pro. Finally they are both very solid languages with strong tooling and wide communities. Ps: the cool "new" guy seems to be Quarkus, though :) |