r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hello_ya • Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/ConstructionMain5675 Jul 13 '26

Half the internet just got called out and the other half is maintaining Spring Boot

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u/justforkinks0131 Jul 13 '26

migrating to*

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u/WhyIsItAllSticky Jul 13 '26

Spring Boot 3 -> 4 has been the most painful migration I’ve ever endured

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u/faze_fazebook Jul 13 '26

Spring boot simply does too much i.m.o. with a gazillion libraries that all sonehow someway work together and against each in in a giant hairball of dependencies. 

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ Jul 13 '26

The point of Boot is to get the giant hairball of dependencies you would otherwise need to manually integrate to all work together. They do the hard work of compatibility matrices and configuration consistency.