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I 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 r
by aweiland 9y ago
I 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.