Zentrope

troutwine:

Maybe I’m a loon, but that’s an un-godly amount of code for one lonely table.

I know I’m a loon. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would, at any time, use Spring for anything. I understand all the sentences and paragraphs people say when they speak about it, but it still doesn’t add up, especially when you listen to your rapidly deteriorating psyche before you’ve even completed downloading all the dependencies. I just fall back to jokes and bromides: The first indication that you’ve horribly, horribly botched your design is when Spring seems like a good idea. If you want late binding, use a dynamic language. If you’ve got a problem and you think Spring is a solution, now you’ve got two problems and three maintenance programmer jobs. If you ignore 99% of what academics have to offer us, you get Spring. Spring is the antidote to a poison which was the antidote to a poison which was an antidote to a poison which was taken when you decided a bash script was old fashioned. My favorite: What’s Spring? It’s the bulk of the lines I see in stack traces.

*Shudder*

By which I mean, clearly, I’ve completely missed something. Scala + Spring? It’s like adding getters and setters to Erlang modules. There’s something really cargo-cultish in it all.

Oy.