[kvtrew76557]

I'm glad to see that Spring, which features heavily in the Java top 100, doesn't even make the top 100 for Scala. In my experience many Scala developers were previously Java developers. It's rather telling that they are choosing to ditch the needless complexity of Spring.

[watwut]

Or maybe Java has more huge projects then Scala or simply different kind of projects. Springs fits some projects better then other projects - duh - and they have to be big enough to make it really useful.

I have no beef with spring, found it useful and not that much complicated in the past. That does not mean I'm going to use it in every new project I'm about to start.

[ditt84576]

I've seen Spring projects with more xml than actual source code. When you ask why it's being used you hear 'to do dependency injection'. There was an excellent talk recently with a quote along the lines of: what Java programmers call dependency injections is just called passing variables in other languages.