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When I started learning how dependency injection works it was extremely hard for me to understand. Once I got what it does I still didn't quite get what the benefits of this technique were. I just thought it was some overly complex design pattern that is just making life difficult for the sake of it. After all, what is so bad about using new anyway?

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