Why are static variables considered evil?

Question

I am a Java programmer who is new to the corporate world. Recently I\'ve developed an application using Groovy and Java. All through the code I wrote used quite a good numbe

Answer 1

There are plenty of good answers here, adding to it,

Memory: Static variables are live as long as the class loader lives[in general till VM dies], but this is only in-case of bulk objects/references stored as static.

Modularization: consider concepts like IOC, dependencyInjection, proxy etc.. All are completely against tightly coupling/static implementations.

Other Con's: Thread Safety, Testability