Jumping on the bandwagon - DDCPU-16

akaz nemo at utopia.com
Sat May 5 12:56:31 PDT 2012


> My latest issue with Java is the trend to add annotations 
> instead of keywords, like @Override, or the new type 
> annotations like @NotNull and so on.
>
> Its slowly going to annotation hell.

It was never clear for me why use annotations instead of proper 
keywords.
Yes, annotations are supposed to be a kind of meta-language but, 
then, why to make those part of a language? If they are intended 
to be part of the language, they should be proper keywords, no 
more, no less.


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