> Spring is a battle tested, robust, optimized framework, that has scaled the largest brands in the world. It is literally what fortune five hundred companies trust their fortunes with. Spring is far from being outdated or inefficient, and will likely continue to dominate the market for years if not decades to come.

I spit my coffee out on part of this one!

I’ve been a Spring developer for the better part of the last 10 years, and it definitely has warts, bugs, undocumented behavior, and plenty of source code diving for half-implemented features.

It does allow corporate middleware to easily be inserted, making management feel better and devs lives’ harder.

Don’t get me wrong, it has a placed in “corporate” development, but there are much more streamlined frameworks out there. In today’s day and age where SDKs are readily available and APIs are mostly sane, I think it has less of a place.