An airhacks.fm conversation with Ladislav Thon (@ladicek) about:

CDI history and evolution,

transition from XML-based configuration to annotation-based dependency injection,

introduction of CDI lite in version 4.0,

differences between portable extensions and build-compatible extensions,

Arc as Quarkus CDI implementation,

challenges in implementing CDI at build time,

new features in CDI 4.0 and 4.1 including lifecycle events and method invokers,

comparison of CDI with other dependency injection frameworks,

discussion on decorators,

interceptors, and stereotypes in CDI,

performance implications of CDI in Quarkus,

Convention over Configuration in CDI,

upcoming changes in CDI 5,

removal of expression language dependency from CDI API,

benefits of build-time oriented implementations like Quarkus,

challenges in migrating portable extensions to build-compatible extensions,

introduction of synthetic beans and observers,

addition of priority support for stereotypes,

improvements in invocation context API,

ability to declare priority on producers in CDI 4.1,

integration of CDI with application programming models,

Convention over Configuration paired with dependency injection,

performance considerations of CDI in Quarkus compared to manual dependency management