I'm fond of saying that all great code earns it's right to become good code by starting as trash...

But I still think we should all quietly and politely let Spring die a simple dignified death, as soon as possible.

Out of wildly morbid curiosity, do Maven and Ant still shit all over each other to make sure no one has any real idea what the build inputs and outputs are?

I shouldn't ask things I don't really want to know, though. My inbox is gonna be full of Java apologists.

Thanks, my works' codebase feels old now.

They started from XML. There's nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.

FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface

Friends don't let friends use Java 😜

When they make XML do these things (or the way Github Actions does it with YAML), they're essentially creating a representation of the AST that the compiler would make internally from a mini language. So there's a few possibilities:

• They don't know how compilers work and reach for a tool they do know
• They know, but figure the problem at hand doesn't need the complexity of a mini language and start the project the quick and dirty way, and it gets out of hand as they add features
• They may or may not know, but they do get caught up in the hype of some other tool (likely what happened with XSLT)

The one benefit of toml is that nobody creates a programing language over it.

Heh. Any day though, right? I can't wait to see an excited presentation on code-free coding in YAML...

so far