Spring
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
11warn against
Nov 15, 2025first mention
Oct 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“This is what made Spring so successful”
“I am a Java dev and Spring user for about 10 years now.”
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“Spring dependency injection is mainly based on types.”
“Agreed, Spring Framework is quite simple”
“Spring just made things easy.”
Caveats and dissent
“I've generally thought that was a result of frameworks - Spring, for example.”
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“Do I love Spring? No.”
“I wouldn't pick Spring or any other dependency injection framework because they inevitably lead to impossible-to-debug performance issues”
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Also written as Spring Framework. Data: spring.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 30
“At least it was the "Simple" version.”
“I was testing the additive pipeline style of OfficeFloor against the mutative handler style of Spring”
“I've generally thought that was a result of frameworks - Spring, for example.”
“This is what made Spring so successful”
“CDI is clearly derived from many years of innovation by Spring”
It's clearly still very popular. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-web-frameworks-and-technologies
“Do I love Spring? No.”
“jdbcClient from Spring framework”
“I wouldn't pick Spring or any other dependency injection framework because they inevitably lead to impossible-to-debug performance issues”
“I am a Java dev and Spring user for about 10 years now.”
“the complexity merchants showed up and ruined the party”
“The site has been built with some pretty unremarkable tech stack Java / Spring / Mysql / HTMX”
“More than 6 years I worked with Spring on Java”
“Spring dependency injection is mainly based on types.”
“Agreed, Spring Framework is quite simple”
“Spring just made things easy.”
“gives you a dozen of footguns”
“Even large projects like Spring are Kotlin first nowadays.”
“Spring makes it so we're using IOC everywhere, but it's just adding unnecessary complexity.”
“I will never invest even 5 minutes in learning that horrible Spring framework”
“I've gone through the XML hell, was not fun”
“I adopted Spring when version 1.2 was released.”
“SYSGEN is the old 360's answer to the Spring Framework but less dynamic”
“Java EE, Spring, Spring Security, REST”
“Spring Framework from 3 to 4 and then to 5”
“Spring”
“The Spring RTS FOSS engine is an engine, but does not provide the game assets”
“Stack: Java + Spring, Go, PostgreSQL”
“I personally had the misfortune of having to deal with MySQL [1], Commons [2], Spring [3]”
“It looks eerily familiar to Spring DI framework, yikes.”