[ecshafer]

Spring is still awful. Play, Javalin, and other frameworks are leagues better. Even Spring boot isn't a great framework which has way too much annotation soup. Worst thing with Spring/Spring Boot is that the framework and ecosystem breaks extremely often with updates.

[cutler]

Agreed. Spring hasn't changed that much. It's still an annotation-fest at core and the method names don't appear to be getting any shorter.

[skinkestek]

I use Quarkus these days which means the IDE support and ecosystem of Java, the very simple annotation rules from JavaEE, and reload times like PHP.