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Our company inherited a Grails project, and I had to help the developer out occasionally. Frankly, Grails seems horrible, especially since it mixes the nice la
by adamors 13y ago
Our company inherited a Grails project, and I had to help the developer out occasionally.
Frankly, Grails seems horrible, especially since it mixes the nice language that is Groovy with just craptastic JVM stuff.
Is there any other mature framework for the language? I have a feeling Groovy is wasted for Grails.
- vorg 13y ago> Is there any other mature framework for the language? No. It's because Groovy and Grails are part of the same company that many developers are afraid of creating another web framework using Groovy. Grails dictator Graeme Rocher was even one of the 5 Groovy despots for 4 yrs, and didn't leave until a few months ago. This could have been what prompted the Play! 2 framework to purge itself of all its Groovy code. Unfortunately, Groovy project manager Guillaume Laforge uses "and Grails initiator" in this title, perhaps not realizing the message that sends to people thinking about using Groovy for something web-related but not part of Grails.
- mcv 13y agoYou keep repeating the same thing all over this discussion, are you?
- memracom 13y agoRatpack, Graffiti, Gaelyk, Portofino. It's hard to judge something as "mature" because this is often synonymous with bloated, filled with magic, etc. So for my money, lightweight frameworks like Sinatra for Ruby are more mature that Rails. Most languages have frameworks inspired by Sinatra, or in Python, frameworks that preceded the whole Rails and framework hypestorm.
- msgilligan 13y agoRatpack, though very cool, should not be considered mature. The API has has not even stabilized for a 1.0 release. (Because Luke & team are working very hard to make it a great API)