Comment by almosthere

I fell out of love with Java not because of the language, but because it got tied up with DI. Don't get me wrong, the allure of DI is really neat. Make all sort of interfaces and just call the function and it can be implemented by dozens of things. Perfect for a lot of use-cases. But then reality hits, and you eventually realize how complex the entire codebase is because it's pattern 1, pattern 2, p3, p4, etc... People are so obsessed with GoF patterns that they're not getting anything done other than spending the first month on a beautiful API.

Then I got into Python and people were building useful server APIs in a day.

Both have their place, but I think the problem with the first route is that EVERYTHING ends up with Spring or CDI and complexity overload even if only 1 thing will ever be "implemented".