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The static typing features in Groovy 2 were written by just 1 person only 1 year ago, Grails doesn't use them in its codebase, and Groovy's only other user with
by vorg 13y ago
The static typing features in Groovy 2 were written by just 1 person only 1 year ago, Grails doesn't use them in its codebase, and Groovy's only other user with any traction, Gradle, still ships with Groovy 1.x. Best not to trust its features until Grails does.
- Roboprog 13y agoHmm. Thanks for the tip. I've been working on trying to graft Groovy 2.1 onto an old Java app. The static type annotations don't work with Java 1.5. You have to have at least Java 1.6. (I discovered today) So, if you have Java 1.5, you can really only use Groovy 1.x language features, as well. Otherwise, it turned out to be not so hard to start putting little Groovy seeds into a Java garden, which I'm not going to rewrite as Grails. Just being able to use closures with the Groovy Collection extensions is pretty useful.