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.
