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Oh yes, journaling. Without accounts, and no export. I can't live without my weekly timestamped notes. org-journal does that for the emacs brethren.

Have you read the updated docs? Oh, you didn't get the memo. Oh, the memo is stuck in 1999. Oh.

Most standard complaints are over 10 years old, people should just get over it. The IDEs are a little fat and I/O hungry. If you don't have a beefy machine, just get a SSD, and that problem is gone.

Spring is great, but JavaEE6 simplified things further standardising things like CDI, JPA, JSF, Jersey, etc... (also, JavaEE7 was just released).

It's actually a pleasure to write web apps in Java nowadays. Great IDEs, debugging tools, lots of mature options, unlike some cool kids..