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Maybe Gradle is the 'killer app' that keeps Groovy popular? I've heard from people with tricky build tool requirements that it's one of the best options out the
by m12k 9y ago
Maybe Gradle is the 'killer app' that keeps Groovy popular? I've heard from people with tricky build tool requirements that it's one of the best options out there.
- aweiland 9y agoI see Groovy in 3 places: Gradle files (a Kotlin alternative is coming), Jenkins pipeline build scripts, and the Spock testing framework. I don't have a good read on how popular Grails is anymore. I liked it a lot in the past but I don't need it anymore with Kotlin and Spring Boot.
- joemccall86 9y agoWe've stuck with Grails for a few years now and I still prefer it over vanilla Spring Boot. Things like JSON views and GORM are still really nice to have.
- vorg 9y ago> Gradle files (a Kotlin alternative is coming) Gradle's been able to use Kotlin for build files since Gradle 3.0 which was released last year. For Jenkins, only a subset of Apache Groovy can be used. None of the functional methods will work when used. Grails 2.x is still around, but virtually no-one's converting their projects to version 3, or starting new Grails projects in version 3. Groovy development has come to a standstill, and even contributions from outside developers just sit there, such as the new Antlr 4-based parser which someone contributed a whole year ago.
- cutler 9y agoKotlin has its own build system - Kobalt.