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The things you hate about working with Java, that you mention in the first paragraph, are the basic things that Java devs have to do, or actually any dev in any language.

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In a sense this is about the fundamental difference between frameworks and libraries. So to a certain extent, you're right. But there's extra complexity in not knowing why some annotation was picked up. With any API call you know you're trying to register something and can debug into it. With an annotation project you're sometimes stuck at "nothing happens".

Which is also true for node projects I guess :D

And the metaprogramming comment stands IMO.

Any dev has to be a real expert and read reflection code to debug issues?

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