[tonyarkles]

I'm explaining why I have had a bad experience with Spring. Spring is the only framework I've used that does weird stuff with annotation-based DI and can silently fail in production by default due to those annotations not being resolved correctly at runtime (heck, even if they can't be resolved at compile-time, please make them fail at startup instead of later!).

I've had other issues with other non-Java frameworks too, but I'm not giving a comprehensive write-up of the pros and cons of every web framework I've ever used here... just pointing out the pain points I had with Spring.

I also didn't mention LOMBOK because that doesn't seem like it's necessarily part of Spring by default but wow did that also prove to be another source of painful bugs.

[literallyroy]

Spent a good day debugging, to learn that some (most?) annotations don’t work when the method is called from inside the same class (no proxy is setup).