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Takipi: Groovy for Java Developers? Meet Gradle, Grails and Spock

3 points by samber 10y ago

vorg 10y ago
Apache Groovy joined the Apache Software Foundation in November last year (2016) and, like all products at ASF, should be tagged with "Apache" on first use in a new context like a web page such as yours. On your web page, that would be "Apache Groovy" one time near the top, and "Groovy" the other 32 times. This is a small burden for those benefiting from Groovy integration, considering all the good things the ASF provides in return. Unfortunately, the Groovy project management (PMC) chairperson at Apache is ignoring this requirement. That doesn't mean you should also poke the finger at the ASF. > it includes a list of features that differentiate it from Java, such as: Static and dynamic typing Groovy's original use case was as a dynamically-typed language for the JVM. Virtually no-one uses its more recent static typing because of QA issues. > Groovy is one of the 20th most popular programming languages for July 2016 Groovy jumped from 0.33% to 1.18% in a single month 6 months ago. See http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy This indicates either cheating by Groovy's backers or erroneous measurement by Tiobe. Groovy's long-term rating (Oct 2007 to Jan 2015) at Tiobe sits at 0.1%. > Gradle is a tool built in Groovy that helps us with our Java Gradle is built in Java, not Groovy. It has provided Groovy as a DSL, but will be providing Kotlin as its preferred DSL for writing build scripts and addons with Gradle 3.0, due soon. > On the official website you’ll be able to find the major sites who chose Grails They "chose" Grails, but sites aren't choosing Grails anymore. Virtually no-one upgraded from Grails 2 to 3 when it was released early last year. > you can find a long list of Groovy related projects, such as: GPars GPars has been bundled with the Groovy distribution since its production release. > Java developers have a pretty good chance to come across Groovy during one project or another, due to the impressive tools written in it Groovy's main use is for small scripts testing Java code, and build scripts. It's not very good for larger projects, for which a statically-typed language (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Scala) is better.

3 points by samber 10y ago

vorg 10y ago

Apache Groovy joined the Apache Software Foundation in November last year (2016) and, like all products at ASF, should be tagged with "Apache" on first use in a new context like a web page such as yours. On your web page, that would be "Apache Groovy" one time near the top, and "Groovy" the other 32 times. This is a small burden for those benefiting from Groovy integration, considering all the good things the ASF provides in return. Unfortunately, the Groovy project management (PMC) chairperson at Apache is ignoring this requirement. That doesn't mean you should also poke the finger at the ASF. > it includes a list of features that differentiate it from Java, such as: Static and dynamic typing Groovy's original use case was as a dynamically-typed language for the JVM. Virtually no-one uses its more recent static typing because of QA issues. > Groovy is one of the 20th most popular programming languages for July 2016 Groovy jumped from 0.33% to 1.18% in a single month 6 months ago. See http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy This indicates either cheating by Groovy's backers or erroneous measurement by Tiobe. Groovy's long-term rating (Oct 2007 to Jan 2015) at Tiobe sits at 0.1%. > Gradle is a tool built in Groovy that helps us with our Java Gradle is built in Java, not Groovy. It has provided Groovy as a DSL, but will be providing Kotlin as its preferred DSL for writing build scripts and addons with Gradle 3.0, due soon. > On the official website you’ll be able to find the major sites who chose Grails They "chose" Grails, but sites aren't choosing Grails anymore. Virtually no-one upgraded from Grails 2 to 3 when it was released early last year. > you can find a long list of Groovy related projects, such as: GPars GPars has been bundled with the Groovy distribution since its production release. > Java developers have a pretty good chance to come across Groovy during one project or another, due to the impressive tools written in it Groovy's main use is for small scripts testing Java code, and build scripts. It's not very good for larger projects, for which a statically-typed language (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Scala) is better.