Honestly, I like Spring! Trying to get my teammates to practice TDD pre-Spring and the same post-Spring was like night and day. It’s amazing how many hardcore technical arguments people made to avoid saying “20-second boot times annoy me too much for TDD to work for me,” and just as amazing how those arguments melted into the ether once 20-second boot times weren’t a thing any more.
So I’m going to restate my point: the chatter on this forum, and chatter I have seen elsewhere, shows me that people are unlikely to come to consensus on Spring and Bootsnap in the space of this thread. I don’t think it’s productive to argue about their existence here, or whether they should be defaults or not. I do think it’s productive to make it easier to turn them on and off, so that whether they’re defaults can become a less contentious question.
