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I wouldn't say I'm stuck on the JVM, I actually prefer building web apps with Grails. Grails may have a small community, but it makes Java web development real
by olavgg 11y ago
I wouldn't say I'm stuck on the JVM, I actually prefer building web apps with Grails.
Grails may have a small community, but it makes Java web development really sexy. And I write 50% of my Grails code with Java. Groovy is ok, but I prefer the excellent IDE support I get with Java.
- xirdstl 11y ago"Stuck with" was probably not the right wording. Where I started with Grails in an enterprise environment, Rails would have been a non-starter (or at least a much tougher sell) because operationally we were a Java shop. With Grails, though, it's just another WAR to drop in your servlet container, so operations doesn't really care. Which IDE do you use? I find IntelliJ to have great Groovy support. Also, you can optionally type check Groovy, which helps even more.
- olavgg 11y agoI use IntelliJ too, and I use static typing and @CompileStatic all the time. I'm not complaining, just being nitpicky. I don't see the point coding Java style with Groovy. And that is in my opinion Groovy's biggest strength, that a Groovy and Java class can work great together. A class written in Groovy works just like a Java class in Java and a class written in Java works like a Groovy class in Groovy :-) And I'm a big fan of using Groovy when working with JDBC.