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Re:An Ode to Ruby by marquis_andras on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:00PM (#29877781)
This has been my experience too.

I constantly fear Spring Boot magically reconfiguring itself based on what it finds in the classpath, and half the codebase being annotations and import statements.

I've found the metaprogramming in Ruby much easier to understand and teach than Java's reflection and annotation processing.

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Re:An Ode to Ruby by weatherlite on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:29PM (#29878272)
I really gave Spring Boot a shot, it's just way above my head. Never felt like I had a good sense of knowing what the heck was going on what with all the Beans and annotations. But my Java was pretty poor - that could be the reason. However I never had this difficulty with Rails/Django/Node, they all felt pretty intuitive to me.
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Re:An Ode to Ruby by cutler on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:57PM (#29887336)
It's not your fault. Spring Boot is a trip to hell compared with Rails.
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