Comment by throwaway894345

Agreed. It seems silly to call "invoking constructors" "boring" but doing all of the same work in XML is somehow more interesting? It seems like you're just adding in a layer of indirection that does nothing besides exchange Go/Java/etc for XML/Groovy/etc at the expense that one must be familiar with the DI framework to understand how the DI files are loaded, linked together, and mapped to your application code.