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by vorg 9y ago
> almost a superset of java. They removed a few syntactical contstructs Unfortunately "almost" doesn't cut it with programming languages. And they changed, not "removed", syntax. Because Apache Groovy has those (
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by vorg 9y ago
I doubt many programmers already using Jython, Beanshell, Apache Groovy, Xtend, Rhino, or Nashorn will change to the Java 9 JShell. I switched from Groovy to Clojure for scripty stuff a few years ago, mainly for the macros. A well-placed ma
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by vorg 9y ago
The go dep tool has been worked on and promoted by some of the Go committers over the past year or so, but we don't really know if the Go Language designers with the clout to change the toolset have been sold on the idea yet, or if it
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by vorg 9y ago
> it is so similar to Java code, that any Java developer can pick it up Perhaps Java 7, but Apache Groovy doesn't have the lambda syntax from Java 8. Development on Groovy has stagnated -- someone even contributed a fully working An
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by vorg 9y ago
Kotlin-based Spek uses standard lambdas for defining specs, whereas Spock digs into the Apache Groovy parser to change the meaning of labels in the syntax, as well as uses operator overloading. One's elegantly functional, the other&#x2
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by 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
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by vorg 9y ago
> No programmer is going to be confused about what "var" means, so making everyone type "variable" gains you nothing "variable" is easily distinguished from "value" in Ceylon, whereas "var&quo
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by vorg 9y ago
Beanshell came before Apache Groovy and had many dynamic features useful in scripting for the JVM. Groovy essential copied many of those Beanshell features, then added closures, which was Groovy's real contribution to the JVM ecosystem
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by vorg 9y ago
> documentation rant. They cover the simple cases and leave you in the dark if you need to do anything more complex The business model for Apache Groovy and Grails after Groovy creator James Strachan was pushed out became to hook users i
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by vorg 9y ago
> you can write Groovy code to achieve most of the goals you have, even though the process of writing such code might be painful Perhaps SmartThings needs to provide another scripting language besides Apache Groovy, one that's pleas
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by vorg 9y ago
> I am living in an age and country where not being socially pliant isn't something that would get me killed Not killed, but certainly the victim of gossip, even smear campaigns and gang stalking. You're an ideal patsy to cover
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by vorg 9y ago
Most developers will use known code samples (e.g. Groovy's lack of statically compiled Groovy in it's own code base) rather than anonymous claims (e.g. you using @CompileStatic extensively) when deciding on a programming technolog
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by vorg 9y ago
> typing is generally pretty optional Don't use Apache Groovy in typed mode -- hardly anyone else does, and you won't find any typed Groovy in its own codebase, only Java. Groovy was originally built as a JS-style dynamic langu
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by vorg 9y ago
The headline was clickbait, but the article itself only made the claim for Android development, which I think is true. As for Scala, Clojure, and Apache Groovy, they aren't supported by Google for Android.
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by vorg 9y ago
Would be nice if we script those Jenkins pipelines with some other languages besides Apache Groovy. And why are Groovy's functional methods inhibited when used within Jenkins?
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by vorg 9y ago
> despite the losses he plans to add 30 million more available across China by the end of the year Those 300,000 umbrellas "sold" were just the loss-leading initial 1% of the batch for sale. Having proved the concept of getting
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by vorg 9y ago
> doing away with the pointless accounting that dominates an economy based on property rights Good luck with that. Owners of property will fight to protect the system that benefits them. Even those who don't own much will, like peop
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by vorg 9y ago
When there's 2 commonly accepted words to name something, people tend to give different shades of meaning to each word in their minds. To me, Golang is the language spec ("Go language"), whereas Go is the gc implementatio
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by vorg 9y ago
There's a picture of the 6 girls in this link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&obje...
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by vorg 9y ago
> the digits for 3 have either three horizonal strokes ౾ or three vertical strokes ౻, and the others similarly. I have an idea that the alternating vertical-horizontal system might have served as an error-detection mechanism The Chinese
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by vorg 9y ago
> an enormous literary corpus reaching back to before English even existed Certainly true of Telegu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam. But because Bengali is, like English, an Indo-European language, not true of it. Also, not sure what you
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by vorg 9y ago
If you adjust the numbers in the graph at the bottom of the article for head of pop in the countries, China's still overshadowing everyone else, but suddenly France, Spain, and Italy tower over the US, and the US is still a flat line a
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by vorg 9y ago
And in larger Chinese cities, every HSL station is connected directly to the city subway system (or has the subway station under construction). That also means you don't have to allow extra time for contingencies, which usually means a
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by vorg 9y ago
> developing economies are going wireless/fiber and skipping the "legacy" generation, the US should be doing the same with MagLev/hyperloop Opponents of HSL will not only rally against it, but also kill it by promotin
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by vorg 9y ago
> "dial" these "low" numbers by just quickly pushing and releasing the hook button In New Zealand as a kid, we dialed numbers using the hook by subtracting the digits from 10 because the rotary digits were labelled th
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by vorg 9y ago
At least 1000 immigrant millionaires have spent the million buying a house in Auckland over the past few years. These are houses that would have sold for only, say, 950,000 if those immigrant millionaires hadn't been in the buyers mark
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by vorg 9y ago
> Kotlin is very reference semantics, itʼs a thin layer on top of Java One of the main points of Kotlin is that it integrates tightly with IntelliJ. So Kotlin is a layer (not so thin) between a visual IDE (IntelliJ or Android Studio)
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by vorg 9y ago
The 90's also saw much commercial experimentation with visual environments (e.g. Visual Basic, Delphi, JBuilder) with round-trip conversion between the layout form and underlying code. They were promoted for R.A.D. (rapid application
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by vorg 9y ago
You are two users each talking about your team to promote a framework. I'll take some actual time to look at some code from the sole link here, which is the website: class DataDriven extends Specification { def "maximum
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by vorg 9y ago
> Gradle (a Groovy DSL Gradle is not a Groovy DSL. Gradle enables you to write its build files in either Kotlin or Apache Groovy, and perhaps there'll be more choices later on. > Implementing this plugin was straightforward, le

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