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Out of curiosity, what does everyone despise about Groovy?

• virmundi 9y ago
  It's not the new hotness anymore. Scala came along. The author of Groovey says Scalia is better. It's also semidynamic. So if you don't like that, you won't like that (tautology of the day). Updated for Scalia to Scala.
  • bobwaycott 9y ago
    Do you mean Scala? I got a good a chuckle imagining the late Justice Scalia here. :)
  • vorg 9y ago
    > The author of Groovey says Scalia is better. You mean James Strachan? That was 8 years ago. In November last year he said "I still love groovy (jenkins pipelines are so groovy!), java, go, typescript and kotlin. I don't use Scala anymore." [1] Sounds like he uses Kotlin instead of Scala, and only uses Apache Groovy in Jenkins pipelines. And given that the Groovy collections methods are disabled so they don't actually work in Jenkins, I imagine he uses Java 8 or Kotlin for that purpose. [1] https://twitter.com/jstrachan/status/784333918078169088 https://twitter.com/jstrachan/status/784333918078169088