https://micronaut-projects.github.io/...

Micronaut never ceases to amaze me.

Compared to commons cli, the annotation based approach makes it simple.

Fat jar, easily distributable.

Modularity of micronaut, easy to pick only what you need.

I am.... Happy?

Ugh. That was a disturbing word.

Sadly it looks like it's always likely to be a niche framework in Spring's shadow.

@AlmondSauce

Might be, though I always hated spring.

Micronaut is imho far superior to Spring.

They really did a good job on modularization - and even more they are really close to JDK upstream.

What I see though - bit unrelated, yet important - is that most Java devs at our company are creatures of habit.

Lot of JS stuff is dying or dead for good, because of companies like Oracle or Lightbend.

I had to pull for example in most projects dependencies like Vavr ... Then reminding people to not bring it back in. Then the joyful task of informing that whoever tries to re add it, is gonna get reprimanded. Yeah...

Same is imho the reason for choosing Spring. It's just habit. Not a formal reason or the reason is a classic "cause we used it all the time".

Its sad. Cause there are many great things in Java - which should get promoted so the "projects on death row" finally die and actively maintained projects get the resources instead.

@IntrusionCM Oh I agree. I'm actually more of a Quarkus guy myself - but sadly for the reasons you mentioned, I can just see a lot of people sticking with spring and not bothering to move.