Spring Framework

“Spring is slow because it scans the classpath, uses reflection and generates proxy classes all at startup.”

“solid, battle-tested, enterprise-grade frameworks like Spring and Quarkus”

“My kids loved the "Spring" book with the ice bear”

“Graph-based programming environments like make and Spring also free developers from having to worry about what order things have to be done”

“I think of Java/Kotlin and Spring as a secret weapon for startups”

“we are based on Spring, which is probably the most tested piece of software before new versions of Java are released”

“Java & Spring is a good choice whenever you want your application to work”

“Seems much more human-maintainable to have a classic spring/golang backend.”

“Every1 used spring or guice and the di runtime, so tests are expensive for e2e with mocks”

“the training data still contains a large amount of Spring XML/AbstractBeanFactoryAware-style patterns”

“The hard part is knowing where beans are defined, because Spring doesn't make that easy at all.”

“I like using Spring as a Factory Factory Factory to build systems by snapping parts together”

“the drawbacks are outweighed by the benefits in convenience, quality, and security”

“Spring is a very good analogy to what useX hooks were to react.”

“I really don't understand why people complain about Spring or ASP.NET annotations”

“Spring is ... well let's just say there are a few folks in and around that area.”

“Laravel, Django, Rails, and Spring each have thousands or hundreds-of-thousands of times more websites in production”

“Mostly just boils down to a Chain-of-Responsibility pattern which is incredibly easy to reason about.”

“Agreed, Spring Framework is quite simple”

“it has accumulated so much baggage and relies on and perpetuates so many patterns that simply don't make sense anymore”

“you can single step into framework code”

“Spring may be a bad choice for microservices (context required, because it is not true in general)”

“it becomes quite easy to reason about”

“it doesn't let me look into and understand the internals easily”

“Spring has ultimately been the source of performance issues for us with the solution being to ditch spring”

“update churn that is almost as bad as in JS ecosystem, just the fact you don't have to think about AS helped adoption”

“just the fact you don't have to think about AS helped adoption”

“It is productive once you know a whole lot about it though”

“may provide up to twice the RPS as the Spring (Java) stack (externally discovered: at lower CPU and much lower RAM usage)”

“Spring is well used and has many integrations”

“one of the more stable frameworks”

“Spring was ready on day 1, as virtual threads had been an experimental feature since Java 19.”

“Spring/Quarkus probably got their abstraction right after n iterations, which is not necessarily true of a random team.”

“where the path traversal vulnerability in Spring is normally caught by Cloudflare before Spring can see it”

“with its heavy "magic" component”

“For spring, an automatic docker container and native compiled docker container mvn command exists.”

“Spring has first tier Kotlin support, I haven't noticed this bias.”

“Java Spring and dotnet are right there, and are specifically optimized for this use case.”

“Spring for example is a fully managed way of talking about stuff in your app”

“Never had a problem with ctor injection in Spring.”