Ask HN: Google Guice another abandonware from Google?

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4 years ago

It's been already 4 months since JDK17 was released, but Guice (one of the most popular Java dependency injection frameworks) still didn't release required compatibility changes [1]. There looks to be zero contact with maintainers at Google. In the meantime Spring was ready for JDK17 in July (3 months before JDK17 GA) [2]

For years I advocated to use Guice at my companies, as it's considerably less bloated than Spring. Now I'm starting to get some heat on this as it's clear that the support is just not there. Is this the right time to accept the defeat and start migrating back to Spring?

[1] https://github.com/google/guice/issues/1536 [2] https://twitter.com/snicoll/status/1420652097373188100

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