Comment by zeroq

The list generally oversimplifies a lot of things, but you're on point with annotations.

Mandatory personal anecdote:

I'm not a java guy, but I've been around java since '99, and few years ago I was moved to a strictly java team. Upon introduction I decided to show them my party trick and implemented live a pseudo "wolf3d" in one day. As usual, java devs were sort of impressed by the fact that you can do graphics and user input in java, because nowadays that's extremely rare for most of them. I got my approval and in return I asked them to give me a quick one day deep dive into Spring.

At the end I was presented with a basic hello world project that was comprised mostly of... EMPTY CLASSES I mean literally, class Foo {} END OF FILE!

Of course these empty classes had at least 5 lines of annotations on top of class declaration and in the end it somehow pushed the framework into the right direction, but oh my fucking god, I was throwing up in my mouth for the rest of the week.